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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.

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

The Vietnamese e-commerce platforms have reportedly agreed to merge subject to regulatory approval, having jointly raised nearly $300m from backers including SoftBank and JD.com.

The Tencent and Lenovo-backed grocery e-commerce platform has closed its latest round, shortly after reports suggesting it was lining up $500m.

US-based construction services provider Katerra received $200m in funding from the SoftBank Vision Fund I, the vehicle formed by telecoms conglomerate SoftBank.

Guangzhou Honest Dairy's yoghurt brand has spun off with $56.3m in a round led by Matrix Partners China that will fund the strengthening of its production resources.

Hugo, an on-demand delivery and services provider focused on Central America and the Caribbean, intends to channel up to $10m into the vehicle.

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