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

Patient analysis software producer BostonGene has received $50m from NEC in the form of a series A investment that will fund hiring and technology development.

The virtual behavioural telehealth provider has closed a Ziegler Link-Age-backed round following an extension led by Tech Council Ventures and Boston Millennia Partners.

Tencent took part in an $18.6m round that will enable the game-focused influencer marketing platform to hire additional content producers.

Baidu Ventures was among the participants in diagnostics technology developer Sherlock Biosciences' series A round, which has closed at $31m.

Baidu Ventures has helped close a $31m series A round for Harvard-founded Sherlock Biosciences just over a month after the spinout launched with an initial $17.5m tranche.

Nocion Therapeutics has raised $27m in a Partners Innovation Fund-backed series A round to develop drugs for pain and inflammation.

University-industry collaboration matchmaking portal In-Part has added $1.2m from investors including Northern Powerhouse Investment Fund to $516,000 of seed capital procured in 2016.

Based on Harvard and Boston Children’s Hospital research, Nocion Therapeutics has raised $27m to develop drugs for pain and inflammation.

Mobile Premier League, operator of a series of cash prize-based eSports games, has landed $33.5m in a round that included Go-Ventures and Times Internet.