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Digital payment provider Stripe raised an extension to its series G round backed by Alphabet. The round is the latest in the payment tech space, which we have seen grow in the past decade.

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

Marketing analytics software provider Adstage had raised more than $15m from backers including Verizon, Digital Garage, HubSpot, Guidewire and Eloqua.

Guru has closed a $30m series C round backed by returning investor Slack, bringing the sales advice software developer’s total funding to $68m.

SAP.io returned to help marketing analytics software developer Adverity boost its total funding to $50m, with the latest cash to go to recruitment and R&D.

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

Following the January merger of XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne, Purdue spinout Arxan Technologies has also joined the group, now dubbed Digital.ai.

LinkedIn-backed Confluent secured the cash at a $4.5bn valuation, and the data streaming software producer has now raised more than $450m in total.

The Alibaba-backed e-commerce software and services provider is targeting $61.2m in an initial public offering on the Shanghai Stock Exchange.

Following the January merger of SIG-backed XebiaLabs and CollabNet VersionOne, Arxan Technologies has also joined the group, now dubbed Digital.ai.

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