Financial

After the announcement of Warren Buffett’s bet on Japan’s largest trading houses, we take a brief look at how they have been doing on the corporate venturing arena.

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

Centerbridge has led a $178m round as part of a primary and secondary share purchase that will give it a majority stake in the Aegon and Transamerica-backed lending platform.

MDI Ventures, BRI Ventures and Mandiri Capital Indonesia will be tasked with investing in technologies that can modernise state-owned enterprises.

The human resources firm’s incubator and accelerator scheme has chosen six startups for its latest batch, which will run from September to November this year.

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

Xiaomi and SBI Investment co-led the insurance aggregator's series B round, which also featured series A investors including Gojek.

PayPal Ventures and the BBVA-backed Propel Venture Partners are contributing to a two-tranche round that will lift the online bank's total funding to $414m.

The Visa-backed payment software provider added $30m from investors including American Express to take its total funding to $96m.

As the month of August draws to a close, last week we reported several initial public offerings (IPOs) which are lined up for the coming weeks along with some notable ones that have already taken place.

Gradient Ventures led the Mexico-based neobank's series A round, which increased its overall funding to $18m.