Financial

Axa Venture Partners was among the limited partners that have helped the deep tech-focused venture firm raise $59.4m for its second fund.

The digital fintech provider pulled in $80m through a series C round co-led by SCB 10X and backed by Aioi Nissay Dowa, Toyota Financial Services and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation.

The online consumer credit provider completed a series D round led by Santander InnoVentures that was closed at a $1bn valuation.

One vaccine developer, CureVac, has received a generous backing from Germany’s government-owned development bank KfW, while another – Vaxcyte – went public raising $250m.

The capital markets data provider has completed a series A round led by Credit Suisse Asset Management’s Next Investors unit.

The accounting software provider boosted its overall funding to more than $47m as Google subsidiary Gradient Ventures returned to reinvest.

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

Comcast Ventures returned for a $35.1m round for the financial planning service that took place two years after it emerged from stealth.

MercadoLibre's Meli Fund has helped business lending platform BizCapital increase its overall funding to almost $22m.

Vanderbilt University was among the participants in a $75.9m round for Monzo that cut the mobile bank's valuation from more than $2.5bn to under $1.6bn.

The asset management platform developer's series D round included Aflac Global Ventures, Poalim Capital Markets, and existing backers Clal Insurance and SCB Digital Ventures.