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

Amazon and Intact Financial Corporation both contributed to a series C round that reportedly swelled the auto insurance provider's valuation to about $300m.

Singtel Innov8, MDI Ventures, Sumitomo Corporation Equity Asia, Humanica, Fuchsia Ventures, HSBC and the IMC-managed Heritas Venture Fund all invested in the benefits software developer.

Maumee Ventures president Rashmi Agnihotri left parent company The Andersons at the end of 2018, with John Kraus stepping up to take on the role.

Credit Suisse-backed SPF Investment Management has contributed to a $75m series B round for Pagantis, the online lender previously known as Digital Origin.

GCV Rising Star 2017 Amish Parashar, a founding partner at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, has joined corporate VC services provider U First Capital as an adviser.

Natiowide has taken a minority stake in financial services portal developer 10x Future Technologies through a $16.9m series B investment.

Tencent invested $8m as the Chinese online brokerage floated at the top of its range in the US, at a valuation of more than $1.3bn.

CapitalG committed $4.7m to Aye Finance's $33.3m series D round, which closed in conjunction with a $2.2m debt investment from Karvy Capital.