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

Channel 4’s corporate venturing unit has joined earlier backers Sistema and Yandex to become a shareholder of the educational resources provider.

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

JLL Spark was among the investors in a $15.5m round for the interior sensor technology developer that was led by Northzone.

Novo Nordisk Foundation's BioInnovation Institute has funded seven new projects with debt financing and grants to progress research in areas like male infertility and stem cell therapies.

The Varner-Gruppen and Farmasiet-backed last-mile delivery service is now majority owned by investment firms Canica and Verdane Capital.

The cryptocurrency exchange aggregator has closed its second round of the year, which included Gumi Cryptos, raising its total funding to $14.8m.

Oil and gas business Shell has joined energy companies Centrica and Eon to invest in a $14.5m round for the energy brokerage platform developer.

The challenger bank's Orange and Stripe-backed series G has been boosted by new funding at the same $1.57bn valuation.

Daimler will retain 10% of 1886Ventures, which has been formed out of its 1886Labs unit, and will be a client of Deloitte's Digital Ventures team.