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

Narwal, the China-based provider of a smart cleaning robot, has closed a series C round of undisclosed size featuring digital media company ByteDance, DealStreetAsia reported on Monday. Venture capital firm Sequoia Capital China led the round, which included Hillhouse Capital and GGV Capital, and which followed a $14.1m series B round co-led by Bytedance and Source Code Capital in April this year that was also backed by existing investors including Infore Capital and Dami Ventures.

Quidnet Energy, the US-based…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.