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

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

Tencent helped the grocery delivery service become the quickest European company ever to achieve a unicorn valuation.

Retinal disease drug developer Gyroscope Therapeutics has raised series C funding from investors including Fosun Pharma.

Cambridge Innovation Capital has returned for a series C round for University of Cambridge-linked Gyroscope Therapeutics, which also welcomed back Syncona.

The open-source software manager was valued above $800m in a round that included new corporate backer Salesforce Ventures.

Samsung has promoted Dede Goldschmidt to run the vehicle, whose previous co-heads Shankar Chandran and Francis Ho have begun a new fund with its former chief strategy officer, Young Sohn.

The Barclays-backed work management platform developer is looking to expand into new verticals after securing series B funding.

The chauffeur service raised the funding from existing backers that may include Daimler, Alfahim, Recruit or Car4you.

Cambridge Enterprise is celebrating another win with the acquisition of Smap Energy by Enechange.