The Globis-backed startup accelerator has chosen 12 participating startups for its sophomore cohort, three months after the demo day for the initial batch.

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

Quintillion Media has exited vehicle auction marketplace operator BlueJack in an acquisition of undisclosed size by peer Shriram Automall.

Globis, Nihon Unisys and Yahoo Japan have chipped into a $47.3m round for the online sales support platform developer, with half the capital to go to increasing headcount.

KH Energy and Eugene Private Equity have provided series A funding for the car sharing service, a spinoff from Korea's SoCar.

The banking group is providing the funding as part of a collaboration deal that will involve it building a financial services app with Grab.

Prosus and Meituan Dianping both participated in the series I round, which valued Swiggy at $3.6bn but remains short of the $1bn the company had originally hoped to raise.

Centrica Innovations has returned to co-lead the EV charging software producer’s $11m series C round with Gilbarco Veeder-Root.

Benesse has injected $50m into Udemy at a $2bn valuation, boosting the skills-building platform's overall funding to more than $220m.

Existing backer SoftBank returned to help the telecommunications data platform developer close a round co-led by four investors.