Ceres, Dai Nippon Printing, Japan Post Investment, Money Forward, TIS and Toppan all backed the business development, incubation and investment company's latest round.

An unnamed casino operator invested in the sports and esports betting platform developer in around that will support international expansion.

SoftBank and Microsoft have helped the last-mile delivery service increase its valuation to roughly $2bn in a round led by CapSur Capital.

Midroc Europe led a round that increzased the wave energy technology developer's total equity funding to $25m.

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

Ringier Digital Ventures helped provide $16.6m for the car subscription service, which has now secured more than $83m in total.

Tencent Industrial Ecosystem Investment fund and Langcheng Capital have co-led a round for the industrial digital transformation technology provider sized at nearly $15.4m.

Novel TMT Ventures has backed Elevate Brands, an acquirer of Amazon’s third-party sellers, which aims to build a portfolio of 100 companies.

The vehicle charging technology developer, a spinout from MIT, has secured a further $18m for a Mitsubishi-backed round.

BP Ventures, Drax and IP Group have all returned to back a $11.3m round for the smoke capturing technology provider.