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Alibaba’s Greater Bay Area-focused fund is on its way to reaching its ceiling in the first half of this year, having secured a third of the $150m in capital so far committed.

Digital bank operator Tonik Financial raised $131m in a Mizuho Bank-led round while e-commerce software provider Shopware secured $100m from PayPal and Carlyle.

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

Sector review of top investors, breakdown by subsectors and breakdown by type of corporate backers

Orange Grove Bio has partnered SV Investment to jointly source therapeutics in South Korea and the US and create spinouts.

2021 year-end data analysis

In a recent poll of corporate venturing industry leaders, we asked what the most important trends were in 2021 and sought their insights into the big opportunities that 2022 may have to offer.

From September to December 2021, Global Corporate Venturing conducted its annual State of CVC survey.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a $300m round for business-to-business marketplace ElasticRun and co-led blockchain creation platform developer Aleo's $200m series B.

Financial services provider Tribal raised $60m in a SoftBank-led series B round while Credit Saison invested $30m in a round for peer-to-peer lender Julo sized at up to $60m.

Salesforce Ventures and MSIVC re-upped their commitment to the owner of employees healthcare platform Carely in a $16.5m round boosting its overall funding to nearly $39m.