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

The Stanford-StartX Fund-backed NFT marketplace operator has now secured more than $27m in funding altogether.

Motley Fool Ventures partipcated in a first close of undisclosed size for the online investment platform developer, which aims to raise $36m.

The impact investing-focused incubator and investment group’s VC fund counts Marui and SunBridge among its limited partners.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Osaka spinout Cuorips has added $14.7m to its coffers from investors including vehicles for the institution and Kyoto University, just three months after collecting $19.3m.

The Keio University-backed digital medicine developer has secured $19.3m from a consortium including several Japanese corporations.

Legend Capital was among the investors in a round of undisclosed size for Kunlun, an AI chip subsidiary of Baidu, at a valuation of about $2bn.

SoftBank-backed Volpe has reached an $80m first close of its inaugural fund and made its first deal by investing in Uol Edtech.