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.

Salesforce and First Data participated in an $11.2m series A round that increased the total raised by the student debt repayment service to almost $16m.

Argentina’s Ministry of Production and Labour will provide grants for blockchain technology portfolio companies of Binance Labs and the LatamEx-backed Founders Lab.

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

Digital insurance startup Friday has pulled in funding from majority shareholder Baloise as well as SevenVentures and German Media Pool.

Commercial partner Sirius has reinvested in the worker's compensation insurance startup as part of a series B round that will fund geographic growth.