Elara Technologies has acquired home rental platform FastFox for an amount likely to be about $15m, enabling CyberAgent to exit.

The pet food and care provider has formed an open innovation subsidiary, Kinship, which will oversee a $100m strategic investment fund.

Tencent led the academic social network and research portal's series C round, which brought its overall funding near the $35m mark.

Airbnb has confirmed an investment in the short-term accommodation platform reportedly sized at up to $200m, at a valuation substantially higher than $5bn.

WeWork has backed Proxy in a $13.6m round after introducing the company’s workplace access control system at its New York and San Francisco offices.

Tencent invested $6m as educational app developer Byju's raised $31m to boost its overall funding to more than $820m.

The outdoor educational course provider plans to expand to additional cities using the investment from WndrCo, which took its total funding to almost $30m.

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

GV joined a batch of Lola's existing investors, increasing the personalised travel booking service's overall funding to more than $80m.

Hearst Ventures was among the participants in a round that will fund the roll-out of Plum Guide's high-end holiday accommodation rental platform to 12 more cities.