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Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace Udaan extended its series D round with a $280m tranche, featuring Tencent. The company is one of the comparatively few B2B e-commerce deals we have reported, despite the relative size and importance of the B2B in it.

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

David Fernando Audy, Mulyono Xu and Pascal Christian-Sarana are joining the team of the Yahoo Japan and Sinar Mas-backed venture firm.

Snowflake Ventures put up $20m for the cloud cybersecurity platform developer's latest round, which included existing backer Liberty Global Ventures.

Artificial intelligence processor developer Horizon Robotics added $400m in series C2 funding to the $150m it raised last month.

Salesforce Ventures has backed enterprise data query software developer Starburst in a move aimed at strengthening its Tableau data visualisation tool.

SoftBank and JD.com-backed data analytics platform developer TalkingData's latest round was led by CR Capital Group's CR Data Fund.

Kallidus has purchased the Gradient Ventures-backed HR management software provider following a $4m seed round in 2019.

Cisco Investments returned for a round that boosted the data management technology provider's valuation to the $1bn mark.

Existing investor Liberty Global Ventures contributed to a round that pushed the software deployment technology provider's total funding to at least $157m.

The VR and AR technology developer, which was spun off by iQiyi, has closed an eight-figure series B round co-led by Yitang Changhou Fund and Fresh Capital.