Salesforce Ventures took part in a round that near tripled the valuation of the virtual events platform developer to $5.65bn in just four months.

NetEase and Sony Music Entertainment contributed to a round that boosted the livestreaming platform developer's overall funding to $22m.

The music production technology provider was valued at near $500m in its series D round, while WME and AM Only could have both exited.

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.

Sinclair Broadcast Group had owned a 27% stake in the programmatic advertising software developer pre-acquisition.

Q&A with Madura Wijewardena, head of business development, Comcast Ventures

The Tencent-backed online community has added approximately $168m to a series E round with a $500m target for its close.

Specialized Bicycle-backed Zone 5 Ventures was among the investors in a series B round announced in conjunction with the active media company's rebranding to Outside Media.

The New York Times, Automattic, WGBH, American Public Media, McClatchy, Graham Holdings and Bose have exited the podcasting platform developer through the deal.