Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Venture capital firm Foundry Group has added $2.5m to a series A round for based digital payment technology provider Gig Wage that now totals $10m, Crunchbase News reported on Monday. Financial technology holding company Green Dot Corp had led a $7.5m first tranche in October 2020 that included Continental Investors and existing backers Techstars and Rise of the Rest Seed Fund to take Gig Wage’s overall funding to $9.5m.

Qualitas Health, the US-headquartered, algae-based nutritional product developer also known…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.