Consumer

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

SEB Alliance was among the participants in a round that will help the recipe publisher develop children's cooking kits along with a packaged goods offering.

An undisclosed US university endowment has helped the consumer-focused venture firm hit a $118m final close for its second fund, surpassing its $100m target in the process.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

The Müller Medien-backed beauty services marketplace has collected $70m in a series C round that boosted its overall funding to more than $116m.

Rebel Launcher will enable restaurant and food startups to grow their businesses across India.

GCV Leadership Society chairman’s welcome letter by Young Sohn, chairman of the board, Harman International and senior advisor, Samsung Electronics

World of Corporate Venturing 2021 editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing

University of Zurich has generated 143 spinouts since 1999, 75 out of which were founded in the past decade.

Prosus took part in a round that pushed the total raised by the food and consumer goods delivery service to $856m.

Retail brand management business Soci has assembled $115m to date from investors including Stanford University's Daper Fund.