Educational toy maker Tech Will Save Us has closed a $6.7m series A round to fuel its European expansion, after M&C Saatchi had supported a first close in March this year.

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

University of Twente-founded MyLife Technologies will commercialise a microneedle-based dermal patch for administering therapeutic compounds.

Loyalty Prime has been backed by the VC affiliate of Technical University of Munich’s Unternehmertum as it builds the international profile of its loyalty scheme management software.

Tom Hopkins will perform services he previously provided through consultancy Kin Capital while also helping Parkwalk strengthen its customer service.

UCL spinout Engitix plans to develop therapeutics for liver fibrosis and certain cancers based on its targeted drug discovery platform.

Rocket Internet has returned for a $17m funding round, just over a year after contributing to a $26.4m round, with the money going towards acquisitions of rivals including Move24.

Ireland Strategic Investment Fund has led a $200m series C round for Wuxi NextCode after the latter’s acquisition of ISIF and GV-backed Genomics Medicine Ireland.

University of Lisbon-founded biotherapeutics developer is targeting infectious, metabolic and intestinal conditions, and has collected $2.8m from a fund run by Seventure Partners.

IP Group is among the investors in x-ray technology developer Ibex Innovations’ latest round after backing a $3m round for the company in 2014.