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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.

Edgewell Personal Care has agreed to acquire razor subscription service Harry’s in a cash and stock transaction that will allow Grace Beauty Capital to exit.

Nine startups will each receive $120,000 from Target and Metro through their accelerator, while eight more will get $10,000 through the Target Incubator.

OpenTable will offer Venga's customer analytics software to its restaurant clients following the acquisition, which will allow Think Food Group to exit.

The comestics supplier plans to invest the capital in Europe and North America through a series of funds, starting with Dynamo Beauty Ventures.

Meat substitute developer Beyond Meat, which has received backing from two corporate venturers, went public.

Vay Sports has been spun out of University of Zurich to commercialise a fitness app that exploits computer vision to monitor a user's posture.

Alchemist Accelerator has picked out 20 startup companies for its 21st cohort, as it raised $4m of capital from BASF Venture Capital and Qatar Development Bank.

General Mills-backed meat substitute developer Beyond Meat priced its shares at the top of an expanded range, but Tyson Foods had already sold its stake.

Motus, which backs spinouts from a range of universities and research institutes, has secured cash from unnamed investors for its Smart World Innovation Fund.

Grove Collaborative has agreed to purchase the video commerce platform in a deal of undisclosed size that will allow CAA Ventures to exit.