Financial

DocuSign came on board as an investor in a series C round led by Y Combinator Continuity that lifted the digital mortgage software provider's total funding to at least $100m.

The merchant payment and bookkeeping app developer won investment from GMO Venture Partners in its third round this year.

Eli Lilly is to exit the genetic sequencing system provider Readcoor in a cash-and-share acquisition by 10x Genomics. This is one of the relatively few exits we have seen in this space over the past decade.

Z Corporation has exited its 40% stake in crypto trading exchange TaoTao in an acquisition by SBI.

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

The $47.3m SuMi Trust Innovation Fund is expected to invest its capital over a decade and will target companies developing digitisation products.

The $2.5m Kyoto Shinkin Bank and Kyoto Chuo Shinkin Bank-backed vehicle is run by Future Venture Capital and will back local entrepreneurs working on social and economic challenges.

Ping An's lending and wealth management spinoff, valued above $39bn two years ago, has selected the New York Stock Exchange for its flotation.

The financial services firms are establishing an early-stage fund that will make digital asset investments across Southeast Asia and Europe.

JPMorgan Chase, Citi, Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank all reinvested in AccessFintech, creator of a financial data exchange.

China-based education services provider Beijing Logicreation Information & Technology, which counts internet company Tencent among its backers, filed for a RMB1.04bn ($152m) IPO on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange’s ChiNext board in September.