CommerzVentures led a $13.5m second close that pushed the insurance processing software developer's overall series A funding to $35.5m.

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

Auriens-backed Cera boosted its overall funding to $91m as it seeks both domestic and international expansion for its home elderly care service.

AxLR Occitanie Méditerranée, Toulouse Tech Transfer and Aquitaine Science Transfer will work with the accelerator to foster agriculture and food tech-focused innovation.

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

Nottingham-founded Excellerate Biosciences has been bought by Oxford's spinout OMass Therapeutics, which unveiled a series A extension last week.

Cambridge University Ventures SEIS Fund will back businesses from the Cambridge ecosystem, including those founded by students and recent graduates.

The ProSiebenSat.1-backed digital publisher is now valued at $500m, having secured $40m in a round that took its total funding to $160m.

The deep tech-focused TTO invested $7.7m in its technology pipeline and more than doubled spinout generation year-on-year.

Returning investor RATP Capital Innovation and long-term insurer Allianz France both participated as the moped rental platform raised $25.5m.