Diane Roujou de Boubée had previously held a manager position at corporate venture capital vehicle Sodexo Ventures.

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

The LinkedIn-backed sales management software provider has closed an Owl Rock Capital-led round at a $1.1bn valuation.

Microsoft, CSAA, Motorola Solutions and AAA-backed emergency response technology developer RapidSOS has secured $51.2m in new funding.

The corporate will get a majority stake in end-to-end construction services provider Katerra, helping it avoid bankruptcy protection.

The service robot technology developer has raised a fresh funding round sized at hundreds of millions of yuan, which came nine months after its $28.6m series B round.

Unacademy has acquired NeoStencil in a deal that will allow Brand Capital and 91Springboard to exit the online education provider.

Bojia Capital reinvested in the Tencent-backed online arts education provider in a round that pushed its overall funding to $305m.

Alibaba and SoftBank Vision Fund helped the online education services provider close a series E-plus round that hiked its overall funding to more than $2.9bn.

AG Capital and Zenrin DataCom were among the backers that helped the mental health assessment software provider close an $11.8m round.