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Late September was a buoyant time for the fintech sector.

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

Satt Erganeo-backed Open Agora offers software to run opinion surveys within enterprise software such as Slack.

Dell Technologies Capital has returned for a $240m series B round, having already backed a $53m series A for the silicon chip designer last November.

Lenovo Capital has chipped into the RPA software provider’s latest funding, which will go toward improving its products and entering new markets.

The ETH Zurich software security spinout had raised at least $5.2m before it was purchased by Snyk yesterday for an undisclosed sum.

Group 42 has joined existing shareholder BP Ventures to co-lead a series C round for Caltech and Nasa spinout Beyond Limits, with $113m already closed and another $20m committed.

Group 42 and BP Ventures have co-led a series C round for Caltech and Nasa spinout Beyond Limits, with $113m already closed.

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

SoftBank’s Latin America Fund and General Atlantic have co-led a $107m series B round for Acesso Digital, a facial recognition technology developer that will use the money to scale.

The website development tool provider’s Wix Capital subsidiary will invest in early-stage startups that are developing AI, e-commerce, web design and automation technologies.