Japan Cloud Capital has received $960,000 in a round featuring railway company Tokyu that represents its maiden corporate venture capital transaction.

Telus Pollinator Fund for Good is equipped with $76.5m to invest in developers of technology that can promote positive social and environmental impact.

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.