Aedhmar Hynes, former CEO of digital communications agency Text100, will join IP Group as an independent director on August 1.

The CAA and Management 360-backed digital avatar technology developer has now raised more than $39m altogether,

Comcast's corporate venturing arm has expanded its investment team with three principals: Fatima Husain, Adam Spivack and Sheena Jindal.

A range of investors have agreed to provide about $40m for the Prof-Media-backed online video host to ramp up its original content provision.

OATV-backed science and crafts content publisher Maker Media has suspended trading having previously raised $10m in equity and debt financing.

Twitter is expected to lead the Xiaomi-backed round with an investment of more than $50m, valuing the social networking platform at up to $650m.

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

The Time Internet-backed online content platform has increased its total funding to more than $20m with a round led by venture firm Qiming Venture Partners.

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

ByteDance has paid $182m for a 30% stake in sporting media portal Hupu as the latter prepares to go public in its home country of China.