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

Sky, GMG Ventures and BDMI participated in a $10.6m round for Papercup as it continues to enhance its content translation technology.

The online shooting game developer has secured a nine-digit yuan amount from Tencent as it prepares to launch a sequel to its most popular title.

The startup studio had been backed by investors including Telegraph Media Group and Entertainment One, before the Asahi Broadcasting subsidiary pitched in new funding.

The online watch media and e-commerce platform secured the cash in a TCG-led round that also featured GV and LVMH Luxury Ventures

Cloud-based enterprise software producer Salesforce agreed to acquire Slack, the US-based publicly listed communication platform which previously counted telecoms firm SoftBank, internet conglomerate Alphabet and media group Comcast among its backers.

Totalizator Sportowy set up the $26.8m fund with the support of state-backed fund of funds PFR Ventures and the National Centre for Research and Development

Siemens' Next47 vehicle was among the investors in a round more than five times the size of the virtual event software provider's series D earlier this year.

Roblox has bought the intellectual property assets of the Gresham Lehrman Group-backed recruitment test developer as it prepares to go public.

BCG Digital Ventures has reinvested in the infant care content provider having previously joined Unicharm for its initial round of funding.