The drama content producer, which counts iQiyi among its investors, has gone public in Hong Kong and seen its share price rise 84% on its first day of trading.

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

The book publisher and nursing care service group’s Gakken Innovation-Tech Fund plans to invest about $29m over the next five years, targeting edtech and healthtech.

Kakao Ventures helped content discovery platform Dable achieve a $90m valuation in a series C round taking its total funding past $20m.

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

The talent management and multi-media production company has enlisted MRC as its first disclosed corporate investor as it looks to expand into new business areas.

Warner Music Group contributed to a series H round that pushed the valuation of the game creation platform developer from $4bn to $29.5bn in under a year.

The Fosun and TAL Education-backed parenting app developer has secured $38.6m from two China-based venture capital firms.

Discovery has provided about a third of the $81.7m closed by GB News as it prepares to launch its right-wing current affairs channel later this year.

Amazon has agreed to acquire Walt Disney and Bertelsmann-backed podcast creator and publisher Wondery for about $300m.