MOL Plus will deploy nearly $40m on behalf of its Japan-headquartered parent company, MOL.

The Baidu and Legend Holdings-backed intelligent vehicle technology developer pulled in over $62m of funding last year across two rounds.

Salesforce has made a strategic investment in the HR software developer, which has increased its total funding to $35m.

Susquehanna International Group and Hupu returned to back a $23.2m round for the men’s grooming brand after previously supplying it with capital in 2020.

SIG and Hupu have returned to take part in a $23.2m round for the men’s cosmetics provider, having respectively backed its series A and A-plus rounds last year.

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

China Three Gorges, Cisco and Lenovo-backed 4Paradigm has closed a $700m series D round after more than a dozen backers threw their weight behind the enterprise AI developer.

Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Sompo and NTT Docomo provided the cash for the creator of a family companion robot called Lovot, taking its total funding to $128m.

The corporate launched Amazon Global Selling Propel with venture capital firms and a government-backed scheme to support emerging India-based consumer brands.

New Hope Group's logistics spinoff has secured $92.4m in a round featuring Longfor Group's investment arm, Longfor Capital.