Susquehanna International Group and Hupu returned to back a $23.2m round for the men’s grooming brand after previously supplying it with capital in 2020.

SIG and Hupu have returned to take part in a $23.2m round for the men’s cosmetics provider, having respectively backed its series A and A-plus rounds last year.

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

Naspers Foundry led a $17m round for Aerobotics, a developer of tree-health monitoring technology, having invested last May.

The KU Leuven spinout has completed another tranche of funding for its series B round featuring investments from the university.

Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Sompo and NTT Docomo provided the cash for the creator of a family companion robot called Lovot, taking its total funding to $128m.

Novo and GV participated in a round that lifted the Harvard, Broad Institute and Penn-linked heart disease drug developer's overall funding to more than $215m.

Novo and existing backer GV participated in a round that lifted the heart disease drug developer's overall funding to more than $215m.

Verizon Ventures was among the investors that added $25m to a round already featuring Dell Technologies Capital, MS&AD Ventures and NTT Docomo Ventures.

UPMC-backed cancer immunotherapy developer BlueSphere Bio has attracted an initial $45.6m in series B funding towards a $105m target for its close.