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 service is looking to file for what will potentially be one of the largest IPOs of all time next month, with a host of corporates set to score exits.

American Express will buy the airport lounge-booking service for an undisclosed sum, handing exits to Concur and Founders Fund.

Parkwalk Advisors has sold on most of its stake in Oxford-founded drone designer Animal Dynamics, securing a 6.9 times return.

The Pivotal in-memory data technology spinoff will be bought by Tibco in a deal that will also enable General Electric subsidiary GE Digital to exit.

Scythian Biosciences-backed cannabis facilities operator Verano has agreed to an $850m acquisition by Harvest Health and Recreation in an all-stock transaction.

The Africa-focused e-commerce platform, backed by MTN, Rocket Internet, Millicom, Orange, Axa and Pernod Ricard, has filed for a $100m initial public offering in the US.

Sector focus: Industrial

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

DSG Consumer Partners made a four-times return on its investment in corporate-backed Oyo, exiting as part of its recent $1bn round.