The 2021 Equinor and Techstars Energy Accelerator, which also counts Kongsberg and Capgemini as backers, has selected 10 companies for its newest batch.

New Oriental Education and Technology has led a round likely sized at approximately $18.6m, which will support development of Whales English's online English learning offering.

Nio Capital contributed to a late-stage round that hiked the new energy service provider's overall funding to approximately $466m.

The Salesforce Ventures and Citi Ventures-backed endpoint security software provider received the funding from Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan Board.

Salesforce Ventures has returned to back a $168m round for OwnBackup, valuing the data backup technology provider at $1.4bn.

Invenergy, National Grid, Salesforce, Wells Fargo and Deutsche Telekom participated in the asset-tracking software developer’s latest round, which brought its total funding to $92m.

Lepas by Bayer led a round for anti-allergy drug and food treatment developer Ukko that also featured Continental Grain.

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

SEB Alliance was among the participants in a round that will help the recipe publisher develop children's cooking kits along with a packaged goods offering.

Japan Post Investment Corporation and Mirai Creation Fund have taken part in a $28.6m round for the video production software provider to take its total funding to almost $67m.