Citi Ventures-backed travel-price forecasting service Hopper has secured funding at a flat valuation after a 2018 round that reportedly valued it at $750m.

NetEase, SoftBank, Time Warner, Madison Square Garden, Dick Clark Productions, Citic Guoan, Founder Group and Comcast have all exited the VR viewing platform at a reduced valuation.

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

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

Five years after leading an $83m series B round, Access Industries has returned to also lead a $50m series C round for DigitalOcean that is now valued at $1.15bn.

Spencer Chavez, a GCV Rising Stars 2020 winner, has stepped down from his position as principal at Salesforce Ventures to join KKR.

GV and Tyson Ventures invested in an $18m funding round for Clear Labs that has now raised $62m altogether from backers also including Dentsu and Tencent.

Continental Grain-backed RNA material producer GreenLight Biosciences is hoping to supply ingredients for RNA-based coronavirus vaccines after securing $17m in funding.

Coinbase Ventures joined Fenbushi Capital in the inaugural funding round for crypto exchange FalconX, which claimed to have processed $7bn of assets in 10 months.

Immune cell mapping technology developer Immunai has emerged from stealth to commercialise inventions from Stanford and PICI labs.