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.

The mobile game publisher received $200m from Advance and existing backer The Chernin Group at a $1.9bn valuation and has now raised about $560m in total.

DuPont is shutting down its corporate venture capital arm as part of a cost-saving process that will involve it cutting its corporate innovation activities.

Faisal Rehman, previously a partner who managed SoftBank Vision Fund’s Middle East investments, has ascended to managing partner following the departures of several key executives.

Smart recommendation platform developer LiftIgniter has been purchased by Maven after raising $8.3m from investors including NTT Docomo Ventures.

GCV Powerlist mainstay Jon Lauckner has announced his imminent retirement from General Motors after leading the firm's GM Ventures unit for a decade.

The spring 2020 intake of SAP.io focuses on the travel and expenses space with participants in areas including machine learning software, carbon offsetting and expense management.

Consumer lender LexinFintech led a series A round for student lending service Boro and will help it expand into the Chinese market.

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