Financial

Our analysis shows that venturing rounds at most stages have grown their median dollar size. Later-stage rounds have experienced a much more pronounced growth.

SVB Financial Group co-led a $24.5m round for startup insurance provider Vouch Insurance that will help it pursue geographical expansion in the US.

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

The insurance provider helped parking space sharing platform Akippa take its overall funding from $22m in June last year to almost $33m.

Salesforce Ventures, a shareholder in nCino since 2015, has returned for an $80m round that brought the banking platform’s total funding to at least $218m.

The BPM Units-backed instalment-based property deposit service secured $21m, with Lakestar and Kairos leading the round.

Mail.ru participated in a $10.6m round that will fund the expansion of investment research provider Atom's engineering, growth, marketing and operational teams.

Stripe has returned for the digital payments technology provider's series C round, which valued it at nearly $1bn, with the proceeds to fund international growth.

Tencent contributed to the first disclosed round for the finance management software provider following its participation in Sequoia India's Surge accelerator.

Newly formed corporate venturing unit Marubeni Ventures has hired Hiroki Eda, formerly of DG Incubation, as managing director.

The mortgage technology developer raised $15.3m in a round featuring Mitsubishi Estate, Sompo Japan Nipponkoa, West Holdings and Credit Saison.