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

Dilafor, a portfolio company of Karolinska Development, has attracted investors led by its manufacturing partner Opocrin to take its overall funding to more than $8.3m.

Co-founded by a former UChicago research director, surgery workflow software provider Explorer Surgical has increased its total funding to $9m.

UAVC has put capital into newly launched UA spinout EARDG Photonics, which integrates technology licensed from another spinout, TIPD, by the same co-founders.

Dance organisation platform Tangdou has reportedly raised a total of nearly $100m to date, which would put its Tencent-backed series C round at roughly $75m.

Based at DCU Invent, Deciphex has gained investors including Inova and GI Partners as it looks to refine its offering for the toxicologic and gastrointestinal segments of pathology.

The follow-on investment complements $1.7m raised by Oxford data analytics spinout Mind Foundry in 2016 from investors including Oxford Sciences Innovation.

Building on Chiba and Hokkaido university research, Think-Lands is aiming to commercialise microneedles manufactured with its optical vortex production system.

Building on KU Leuven and Amsterdam UMC research, Cytura hopes to find small molecule candidates that combat the issue of genomic variability in cancer.

The cloud-based video conferencing software provider has reeled in a nine-figure renminbi amount from Tencent to further develop its product.