Alphabet’s GV and Stripe supplied the funding for computer science academy Lambda School, a Y Combinator graduate that trains software engineers for no upfront cost.

Tokio Marine Insurance and Oddo BHF invested in Simplesurance as part of a round that took the total raised by the Allianz and Rakuten-backed insurance provider to $60m.

American Family Ventures, SoftBank Capital and Verizon Ventures all reinvested in the car repair services provider in a $10.2m round led by Royal Bank of Canada.

Paradise Group of Industries and Gobi Ventures co-led a $9.9m round for working space provider GoWork, which merged with competitor ReWork in February.

Finger received $14.4m in the round, which featured property management firm Greentown Service Group, taking the musical education provider's overall funding to $20.6m.

Toyota AI Ventures and Hyundai have put their firepower behind Perceptive Automata's behavioural prediction system for autonomous vehicles, three months after it emerged from stealth.

Marketing distribution product supplier Open8 has now raised $36m in funding after winning the backing of the corporate-backed Mirai Creation Fund.

Christoph Lymbersky, a partner at corporate venturing unit M2P Venture & Capital Partners, has co-founded investment bank Global Ventures.

Jens Schulte, who oversaw corporate venturing at PostFinance, has been promoted to head of M&A for its parent company, Swiss Post.

Aave’s newly formed corporate venturing unit will fund digital asset technologies and other blockchain-related ideas ranging from payment services to games.