Yale-founded P2 Science, which produces chemicals from clean feedstocks like vegetable oil, secured funding from investors including Elm Street Ventures to take its total to about $23.3m.

The Advance Publications, LVMH and IMG-backed e-commerce platform has added $100m in equity and debt financing to its coffers, bringing its overall equity funding to $345m.

University of Washington’s François Baneyx has sealed the job of vice-provost for innovation having administered the same duties as caretaker since February last year.

The Stanford University spinout has begun offering its smart customer service software to the wider market after securing new capital.

The university boosted tech transfer revenue to $20.7m on the back of five exits while signing 223 new licensing agreements last year.

The online flower delivery service plans to now expand into Japan, after a $30m investment by conglomerate Yamasa that took its overall funding past $73m.

Kakao Ventures co-led a round that also featured Baidu Ventures, LG Ventures and existing backer Samsung Next, taking the 3D collaboration platform developer's total funding to $22m.

OpenLegacy, which already counts RDC, Commerzbank and BNP Paribas as backers, has received $20m from SBI to take its total funding to $70m.

Verily has taken part in an oversubscribed series B round that will fund the UC Berkeley spinout's expansion from diagnostics to gene editing and drug development.

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