Returning investors Axel Springer and Purplebricks combined to invest $45.2m in the online real estate brokerage that will fund hiring and product development.

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

Bond market data provider Neptune Networks attracted several of its financial services partners to close its first publicly disclosed round.

The banking management software provider has followed funding from ING in 2018 with $11.4m from Nordea and Crédit Agricole CIB.

New investors HDI and Nationwide Ventures took part in a series B round that boosted the total raised by the insurance underwriting technology developer to $28m.

The fraud prevention software provider closed a series A round co-led by Axa Venture Partners that will support international growth and product development.

The bank digitisation software provider Nymbus has now raised more than $45m in total, Vensure Enterprise co-leading its latest round.

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

The Sharia-compliant wealth management service raised the cash in a round co-led by Saudi Aramco Entrepreneurship Ventures.

SoftBank, Allianz, XL Innovate and GV are in line for exits after the digital insurance provider filed for a $100m initial public offering.