SVB Financial Group co-led a $24.5m round for startup insurance provider Vouch Insurance that will help it pursue geographical expansion in the US.

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

Icosavax has launched with $51m in series A funding from Sanofi Ventures and others to move a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus into a phase 1b trial.

Icosavax has launched out of University of Washington with $51m in series A funding to move a vaccine for respiratory syncytial virus into a phase 1b trial.

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

Corporate venturing unit Capital One Growth Ventures supplied part of a series A round for recruitment analysis software provider Brightfield Strategies.

The mobility platform developer secured $24.9m in pre-series A funding, Kia Motors investing half while SK Group, LG and CJ Group supplied the rest.

The BPM Units-backed instalment-based property deposit service secured $21m, with Lakestar and Kairos leading the round.

Returning investors Agilent Technologies and Alexandria Venture Investments chipped into a $12.2m round for the DNA synthesis technology developer.

Immuno-oncology startup Stipe, based on Aarhus research, has secured $22m in a round co-led by Novo Seeds, after being incubated at Novo's BioInnovation Institute.