Asia-focused live streaming service M17 Entertainment raised $26.5m from investors including Kaga Electronics and ASE Global, two years after an aborted IPO attempt.

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

ByteDance-backed news and entertainment aggregator Dailyhunt increased its total funding to around $183m after a series G extension from James Murdoch-aligned Lupa India.

Creative Market, acquired by Autodesk in 2014 before being spun out three years later, has now been bought by its peer Dribbble for an undisclosed amount.

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

Andreessen Horowitz has led a $50m series D round for Figma that more than quadrupled the O’Reilly-backed design software developer’s valuation to $2bn.

NEA has led a series B1 round for the smart contact lens developer, whose existing shareholders include Stanford-StartX.

Tencent, Axiomatic, Walt Disney and Endeavor Group-backed Epic Games, developer of Fortnite and owner of Houseparty, is in talks to raise money at a valuation topping $15bn.

ByteDance returned to provide $4.7m for a $23.4m round that boosted the media aggregator's overall funding to near $150m.

Liberty Global is among the STX Entertainment investors that will provide $125m for its merger with publicly-listed Eros International.