The furniture rental service pulled in $17.5m from a round led by Crescent Enterprises' corporate venture capital vehicle as it prepares to expand into the Middle East.

FerGene has been spun off by Ferring Pharmaceuticals to bring a gene therapy for bladder cancer to market, and Ferring itself is supplying $170m of the cash.

Pan-Southeast Asia payment processing service 2C2P secured the funding having previously been backed by two subsidiaries of internet company GMO.

SoftBank Innovation Fund led a $140m funding round for the retail management software provider, whose previous investors include Naspers.

Amperex, SDK, Cabot Corporation and BASF Venture Capital all invested, as the battery materials developer disclosed funding that will be used to beef up manufacturing.

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

Akatsuki, Dentsu, GMO Internet and Nippon Broadcasting System chipped in as the livestreaming platform raised $28.6m in a round in which DeNA sold some of its shares.

The carmaker’s trading subsidiary has backed a financing round for electricity trading platform operator Digital Grid Corporation that brought its total funding to over $12m.

Toppan Printing, Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, Elan Corporation and CBC Co all invested in a $15.6m round for medical suppliers e-commerce platform Medikabazaar.

Benchmark and Insight Partners invested $35m in the Salesforce-backed app management software provider, which just divested its enterprise business to Mirantis.