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

Yale-linked Vera has rebranded from Trucode Gene Repair and will use the money to move towards clinical trials.

Vera has picked up series C cash from investors including GV and Alexandria Venture Investments to help progress its Merck Group-licensed autoimmune disease drug candidate through clinical trials.

Prosus Ventures led an AgFunder-backed series C round for the agricultural goods and services provider it looks to expand its presence across India.

Tencent and Lenovo Capital are among the investors in the service robot developer’s latest round, which pushed its funding from the past 10 months to $77m.

Tencent took part in a round sized at nearly $100m for the English language learning platform, which counts Bertelsmann among its earlier investors.

NGP Capital co-led a round that took the shipping software develope's overall funding to $71m, having first invested just under a year ago.

The batteryless sensor producer's Fluke-led series C round closed following contributions from investors including TOP Ventures and Asahi Kasei Ventures.

Zip and RBI’s Elevator Ventures subsidiary co-led a $19.5m round for the buy-now-pay-later service that included returning backers ING and Uniqa.

The Oxford-linked oncology drug developer has raised the money from new and existing backers, and will use the cash to boost its product pipeline.