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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.

Business-to-business e-commerce platform Udaan was valued at $2.3bn to $2.7bn in a series D round backed by Tencent and Citi Ventures.

Samsung Next and Commerzbank’s Main Incubator vehicle reinvested as part of the $12m equity portion of a $44.7m debt and equity round.

Wearable sensor maker StretchSense, a University of Auckland spinout, has been purchased out of administration by an unnamed buyer.

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TCG has invested $83m to acquire a majority stake in Scripps Networks Interactive and Bertelsmann-backed e-commerce and media platform Food52.

Müller Medien-backed online beauty marketplace Booksy has accumulated $48.7m in all after adding contributions from investors such as Piton Capital and Enern.

Grace Beauty Capital-backed children's clothing line Primary has collected series C funding from returning investors USVP and Homebrew Ventures.

The accelerator will support remote working to broaden its geographical capacity for emerging food products and manufacturing techniques.

Strive, Yahoo Japan and Itochu are among the backers of the flying car developer’s $13.9m round, which took the company’s total funding to about $18m.