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The gas utility lined up investments for two startups related to electric vehicles as it continues its renewable push.

The Global Corporate Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the corporate innovation ecosystem.

Despite a strict lockdown in Shanghai, the beauty giant’s Bold unit is on the lookout for local entrepreneurs working on innovative beauty and cosmetic technologies and products.

The e-commerce logistics network took further aim at Amazon’s Prime services with new funding from Raiffeisen Bank International.

The real estate financing platform provider received backing from JLL, Citi and Capital One to make commercial property transactions smoother.

The Global Corporate Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the corporate innovation ecosystem.

The owner of home renovation platform Today’s House (Ohouse)’s latest round helped value it at $1.4bn and push its total funding to $261m.

PayPal was among the investors helping the payment platform digitise emerging economies.

Insurer Massachusetts Mutual Life’s Southeast Asia-focused unit, MMV SEA, has led the customer engagement platform’s latest round with $3m.

Several China-based corporate venture investors backed a large round valuing lithium-ion battery Shanghai Shanshan material producer at $1.5bn. The deal highlights the importance of battery technologies not only for the emerging kind of mobility applications but for the process of energy transition as a whole.

Corporations piled into the recruitment cloud platform’s $2.8m round, an indication of how SaaS technology is rapidly gaining a foothold at Japanese companies.