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

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

Mitsubishi UFJ’s research subsidiary has revealed the finalists for its accelerator’s latest batch: Acompany, Dynave, Kifutta, Mory, RadarLab and TransRecog.

Tiger Global Management and Dragoneer have supplied between $75m and $100m for the online education materials provider, which counts SoftBank and Facebook as investors.

The mass spectrometry system provider has filed to go public having already raised $70m from investors incuding Saudi Aramco and Schlumberger.

The wind turbine producer has followed investments in Northvolt and Sowitec with the establishment of its own corporate venture capital unit.

Existing investor Qualcomm put up a share of the $45.6m round for the OLED integrated circuit supplier, which counts several other corporates as backers.

Satt Paris-Saclay, École Polytechnique and National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research have joined forces for an aerospace and defence accelerator.

The autonomous inspection robot's total funding now stands above $72m, after Koch Disruptive Technologies led its latest round.

Newly minted strategic partner JD.com joined Oriza Holdings in a $39.5m round for Oriental Standard's e-commerce-focused spinoff.

The funding will allow the Simon Ventures-backed online clothing retailer backed to drive expansion and develop a more physical presence for shoppers.