Consumer

Innovative region: South Korea

The Novel Group and CAA-backed wholesale marketplace platform developer has taken in funding from investors including Brighton Park Capital and Imaginary Ventures.

SoftBank Vision Fund is scoring an exit from the Korea-based online marketplace, which is going public in 2021's largest IPO so far.

Deutsche Post is in line for an exit from the cross-border e-commerce platform through a prospective $100m initial public offering about a year after investing.

Duke University's contactless security system developer agrees to list through a reverse takeover, providing an exit to OUP.

The vegetarian food brand has closed an $18.3m round co-led by Vorwerk Ventures and backed by fellow corporate investor Gaydoul Group.

Vorwerk Ventures and Blue Horizon Ventures have co-led a series A round for the ETH Zurich spinout selling plant-based meat products.

Telstra Ventures returned to help the mobile commerce platform developer close a round co-led by Inovia Capital and Lion Capital.

Bill Ford becomes the third managing director of portfolio operations group at ICV after three years as Coca-Cola's director of venturing and portfolio management.

Ping An and Alphabet-backed health insurer Oscar priced an upsized offering above its range to raise $1.44bn. The offering is part of the broader health space, which has seen many exits in the past years.

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