Consumer lending platform Twisto raised $15.6m from investors including ING and Uniqa, bringing its total equity financing to $23.5m.

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

The on-demand ride provider plans to expand from France into Central and West Africa following an Allianz and Mobivia-backed funding round.

UMC Utrecht molecular diagnostics spinout Genome Diagnostics has won funding from Ampersand Capital Partners and will work with the private equity firm to spur business growth through activities including M&A.

Therachon, which had raised $100m from investors including Pfizer Ventures and Novo, has agreed to be acquired by Pfizer in a deal that could potentially reach $810m.

UCL spinout Promethera Biosciences has increased its series D round to $44.4m with a $33.1m Mitsui and Medipal-backed extension, adding to Itochu’s initial investment earlier this year.

Sales productivity software platform Ciara has won the backing of TUM-allied venture firm UVC Partners in a round that will support continued development of its software.

Sioux Technologies co-led SamanTree’s series A round, which will support marketing of the EPFL spinout’s subcellular resolution microscopy scanner for surgical cancer interventions.

TUM automated legal analysis spinout Rfrnz has secured backing from Unternehmertum-operated Initiative for Industrial Innovations, HTGF and unnamed additional investors.

TU Dresden-founded drug discovery platform operator Dynabind has advanced research from the lab of Yixin Zhang in the university’s B Cube Center for Molecular Bioengineering.