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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.

Mindfulness app developer Calm has added $27m to its series B round, after receiving an initial $88m tranche from investors including CAA five months ago.

Xiaohongshu, an e-commerce platform backed by Alibaba and Tencent, is looking to add up to $500m in funding to its coffers from investors including SoftBank Vision Fund.

Grab has so far raised $4.8bn series H round, after Invesco chipped in $300m in addition to the funding provided by corporate investors like SoftBank Vision Fund, Microsoft, Toyota, Ping An and others since June last year.

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

Novel Group-backed luxury goods marketplace The RealReal will raise $300m in an initial public offering in which it will float above its range.

TCL Venture Capital took part in the $14.5m series B round, which will enable F5 Future Store to expand its network of cashier-free convenience stores in China.

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

GV returned for consumer goods stock exchange StockX’s $110m series C round, which valued the company at more than $1bn and brought its total funding to $150m.

Chernin Group took part in a series B round that increased the total funding raised by celebrity message video service Cameo to nearly $66m.

Pablo Moro Casquete has left his head of innovation role at Mutua Madrileña to join Telefónica’s Innovation Investment arm, having previously worked for the telecoms firm for over a decade.