Kunal Mehta has been promoted to principal at the media group's corporate venturing unit, which has also hired senior associate Jacqueline Cegla and associate Isabel Lo.

The capital markets data provider has completed a series A round led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s Next Investors unit.

The accounting software provider boosted its overall funding to more than $47m as Google subsidiary Gradient Ventures returned to reinvest.

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

Salesforce and National Grid took part in a series B round for the infrastructure monitoring technology developer that was co-led by Petronas subsidiary Piva.

Gradient Ventures and Prologis Ventures both contributed to a round that will fund research and development for the logistics management platform developer.

Salesforce Ventures returned to participate in a round that hiked DevOps technology provider Copado's overall funding to $47m.

Big data analysis provider Palantir has followed a $50m investment by Fujitsu with $500m from its partner in a Japanese joint venture.

The Novartis and Eli Lilly-backed cancer and haematologic disease drug developer will go public today having expanded the size of its offering.

The targeted oncology drug developer, which counts Bristol Myers Squibb and Celgene as investors, is floating above its range in an upsized offering.