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

Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate of e-commerce group Alibaba, has led a series B round of undisclosed size for China-based cybersecurity software provider Seclover, China Money Network has reported, citing business data Tianyancha. The company had received $4.5m in pre-series A funding from CrestValue Capital in 2015, before adding $10m from CrestValue and Shandong Luxin High-Tech Industry two years later.

Audioburst, the US-based developer of a platform offering short-form audio content, raised $10m on Monday from advertising agency Dentsu…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.