Q&A with Sheena Jindal, principal, Comcast Ventures

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

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

The Tencent-backed video game holding group has applied to float in a Korean initial public offering which could value it at about $18bn.

Mobile puzzle game developer Tripledot Studios has bagged series A funding from investors including Access Industries.

Snap and existing shareholder Twitter backed a round for the social media platform, which caters to speakers of 15 Indian languages, valuing it at $2.1bn.

Iris.TV secured the capital in a series B round led by Intel Capital, having raised cash from investors including Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments six years ago.

Tiger Global Management has led the CAA and UTA-backed creator support platform’s latest round, at a $4bn valuation.

SMDV, CyberAgent Ventures, DG Incubation and TMS Entertainment had all invested in the parenting media platform developer prior to the acquisition.

The media company has supplied series B funding for ASO services provider AppTweak having backed its seed round six years ago.