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

Investment holding company Groupe Artemis provided an undisclosed amount for US-based, corporate-backed online sneaker marketplace Goat Group on Tuesday. Goat was valued at $1.75bn in September 2020 when it raised $100m in series E funding from D1 Capital Partners, adding to a $100m investment by sneaker retailer Footlocker in early 2019. Its earlier investors include Index Ventures, Matrix Partners, Webb Investment Network, Upfront Ventures and Accel.

Flexe, the US-headquartered operator of a cloud-based warehouse rental platform, has received…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.