Sumitomo and Asahi contributed to a series A round that will support the expansion of the video storytelling platform developer in India.

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

Coinbase, Banca del Ceresio, ECMC and SIG were among the participants in a series A round that took the digital asset banking startup's total funding to $44m.

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

Main Sequence Ventures has thrown its weight behind Nourish’s $11m funding round, which was co-led by Horizon Ventures.

Trucking distribution system developer Baton raised $10.5m in a round co-led by Maersk Growth that included Prologis Ventures, Lineage Logistics and RyderVentures.

Chord has paid an undisclosed amount to purchase the customer data sofware provider, which had raised $7.2m from investors including Gradient Ventures last year.

Stuart Therapeutics has collected equity financing from investors including Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation to fund phase 2 trials for a drug aimed at dry eye disease.

Asher Bio has launched with $55m in series A financing to commercialise research partially conducted at WashU and Leiden.

M12 co-led a $22m series A round for the drug discovery technology developer with Playground Global, and both investors have taken board seats.