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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.

Axiata Digital will divest a 30 company-strong corporate venturing portfolio valued at $140m to Pegasus 7 Ventures, an investment firm run by one of its ex-executives.

The autonomous vehicle spin-off has been backed by three corporates Toyota, SoftBank and Denso that have agreed to invest $1bn

R/GA-backed consumer goods return service provider Happy Returns took its funding to $25m to date in a PayPal-backed round.

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

3D printing technology producer Carbon, which counts more than half a dozen corporates as investors, has filed to raise $300m in equity financing.

Four businesses have collected $37,000 in equity funding each from a micro-VC fund established by University of Waterloo’s Velocity unit in support of the Velocity Fund Finals competition.

Dance organisation platform Tangdou has reportedly raised a total of nearly $100m to date, which would put its Tencent-backed series C round at roughly $75m.

Qualcomm, Syngenta and Doosan-backed fresh fruit and vegetables supply chain operator Ninjacart has raised $89.5m from Tiger Global Management.