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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.

General Atlantic has supplied equity and secured shares through a secondary transaction, and will aid the CMU-founded language app developer's international growth objectives.

The coffee chain has selected Sequoia Capital China as its partner for a strategic investment campaign in one of its two largest growth markets.

Digital payment provider Stripe raised an extension to its series G round backed by Alphabet. The round is the latest in the payment tech space, which we have seen grow in the past decade.

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

Forest Partners and Activant Capital have invested $11m in the SoftBank-backed agriculture trading hub.

The dairy cooperative was among the investors in a $16.3m round that will help nutrious drink brand YFood expand further into Europe.

Condé Nast was among the returning investors in a round that will fund the luxury fashion e-commerce platform's expansion into Korea and Japan.

Several corporate investors backed the latest $250 round raised by data management platform developer Cohesity at a valuation of $2.5bn. The deal is part of the dynamic broader space of big data technologies which have captivated the attention of corporates over the past decade.

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