SoftBank's Vision Fund is reportedly urging some of its larger portfolio companies to seek initial public offerings during a bull market.

Young Sohn is retiring while Luc Julia is leaving as Sean Kae and David Lee step up and into Samsung Catalyst and Samsung Next respectively.

Gene-sequencing technology developer Vision Medicals has completed a $30.9m round led by Tencent that took its total funding to approximately $74m.

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

The Tencent and Baidu-backed livestreaming app saw its shares almost triple on the first day of trading and is now valued at about $160bn.

Legend Star-backed online security software provider Mysec secured $15.5m in a round co-led by Hillhouse Capital and Jiangmen Ventures.

The $19.3m MS Hayate Fund will be jointly run by Matching Service Japan and Hayate Investment for a period of up to nine years.

SIG, Gojek and Telstra helped mobile gaming platform developer Mobile Premier League roughly double its valuation to $975m.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Susquehanna International Group co-led a round for the education applicant software developer that has been boosted by a $12m extension.