Comcast Ventures has exited the online talent marketplace, which was acquired shortly after a report claiming it ws set to close down.

The truck delivery management service is now valued at almost $12bn, having raised money in a round co-led by SoftBank Vision fund and backed by Tencent.

The Cheetah Mobile and Southern Publishing and Media-backed coding education provider lifted its overall funding to $375m in its latest round.

The Naspers and Benasse-backed online skills platform developer hiked its valuation to $3.25bn and its total funding to more than $280m.

Alphabet-backed language learning platform developer Duolingo has now raised $183m altogether and has increased its valuation 60% to $2.4bn.

The ad optimisation platform’s IPO will enable Colopl, Credit Saison, CyberAgent, Dai Nippon Printing, Denstu, Fidelity, GMO, Gree, Mizuho, NTT, SBI and Yahoo Japan to exit.

Maersk Growth helped the food retail software provider increase the size of the round to $25m at a reported $100m valuation.

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

The $77.1m Sumisei Innovation Fund will run for a decade and back insurtech and healthtech developers, having partnered SBI Investment to identify investment opportunities.

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