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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.

BP Ventures led a series B equity and debt round for the charger provider that also featured another corporate investor, ABB Technology Ventures.

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.

GCV Rising Star Jelena Markovic, formerly an investment associate at BayWa Renewable Energy’s corporate venture capital arm, has moved up to a senior associate position.

Quarterly data report: Q1 2020

Monthly data report: March 2020

What do you do after you have launched a spinout that has raised venture capital from illustrious backers such as pharmaceutical firm Novo, care provider Kaiser Permanente and medical device manufacturer St Jude Medical, and successfully gone public through a $107m initial public offering?

Innovative region: Spain

Sector report: 5G

Sector report: Consumer