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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.

MIT Media Lab-affiliated E14 Fund has invested in the biomanufacturing software provider as part of a series A round led by Cultivian Sandbox Ventures.

Amrish Rau, who headed investments for PayU, has taken on the CEO role at corporate-backed merchant services provider Pine Labs.

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.

Alphabet will exit credit management company Credit Karma in a $7.1bn acquisition by Intuit.

Woowa Brothers and Rakuten Capital contributed to a series B round for Southeast Asian online food ordering service Dahmakan.

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

Valued at $13bn in November, SoftBank-backed food delivery platform developer DoorDash has confidentially filed for an initial public offering.

Prefab home provider Veev confirmed it has raised a total of $85m in equity funding from investors including Lennar Ventures, on top of $12m in debt financing.

Cushman & Wakefield, Macerich, Acadia Realty Trust and Nuveen Real Estate have contributed to the real estate-focused firm's consumer brands fund.