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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.

Lululemon contributed to a series B-1 round that boosted the total raised by the home fitness system provider to $72m.

The Time-backed e-commerce marketing tool provider took its overall funding to $82m in a series C round where TDM Growth Partners joined existing investors.

The Southeast Asian venture firm has reached the final close of a third fund, in which Cisco Investments is among the limited partners.

The big data platform Databricks raised $400m reportedly at $6.2bn valuation, with the backing of Microsoft. The company forms part of the broader big data tech space, in which corporates have been heavily investing over recent years.

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.

SoftBank is leading a $46.6m round for the e-commerce integration platform as it carries on its Latin American spending spree.

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

Alibaba’s Electronic World Trade Platform has returned to lead a $100m series D round for KK Group that pushed the online and offline marketplace’s valuation beyond $1bn.

Online food distribution platform developer Lehe Food raised $14.7m in the round, which was led by Meituan Dianping corporate VC vehicle DragonBall Capital.