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

The recruitment firm’s $9.2m corporate venture capital vehicle will target developers of advertising and online retail technology.

AI app deveIopment software provider Iguazio boosted its overall funding to $72m in a round featuring Verizon Ventures and Samsung SDS.

JSW Group expects its corporate venturing fund to reach a second close at about $21m next month on the way to a projected $49m close.

The bank has received regulatory approval for a venture capital fund that can be sized at more than $29m but which will reportedly begin with $15m.

Iwasaki Gakuen and several banks have contributed to the second close of Sony and Daiwa's joint fund, which had raised $145m of a targeted $185m as of last month.

The classified listings operator, whose earlier investments include Zomato and ETechAces, has formed its first dedicated corporate venture capital fund.

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

Posco Ventures-backed lockscreen advertising publisher Buzzvil has secured funding from consortium Mega-7 Club to boost its overall funding to about $32m.

Nihon Unisys, Mitsui Sumitomo Card Company, Union Pay International, JCB, SoftBank, KDDI and Credit Saison are all set to exit the mobile payment technology developer.