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Marui Co-Creation Pitch 2021 will be made up of early-stage developers of sustainability, customer service and inclusive finance technology and products.

In 2017, property listing startup Hipflat raised an undisclosed amount from Japan-listed internet company Aucfan

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

BHL Holdings and Concentric both contributed as business insurance provider Superscript pushed its overall funding above $24m.

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

The Heska-backed company is currently working on a covid-19 test, its latest round having pushed its total equity funding to about $30m.

Clarity AI, the creator of an investment impact assessment platform, secured the funding in a round led by potential strategic partner Deutsche Börse.

University of Colorado and Osage University Partners both backed a round that took the immune regulation-focused university spinout's total funding to at least $106m.

Tencent, Hengan International and Lenovo Capital helped the offline-to-online retail platform's series C round, which will fund research and development work.

Bloomberg Beta and Slack Fund were among the investors that provided $12m for the workplace messaging tool developer.

Pfizer was among the participants as the Asia-focused cancer and cardiorenal drug developer raised $310m in crossover financing.