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Comcast Ventures was among the participants that helped increase the companionship service provider's total funding to $31m.

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

Owl Insights secured funding from Blue Venture Fund and Ascension Ventures to advance its product development and distribution.

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

Eight Roads Ventures returned for the First Data-backed payment software developer’s series D round, announced alongside two strategic acquisitions.

Satt Erganeo-backed Open Agora offers software to run opinion surveys within enterprise software such as Slack.

UW mental health spinout Owl Insights secured funding to advance its product development and distribution.

AEP, BMW, Chevron, Constellation Energy, Daimler, Siemens, The Hartford and Toyota are all in line for exits as ChargePoint goes public through a reverse merger at a $2.4bn valuation.

Xiaomi and Intel-backed e-scooter vendor Ninebot is gearing up for a $295m initial public offering on the Star Market using Chinese Depository Receipts.

Dell Technologies Capital has returned for a $240m series B round, having already backed a $53m series A for the silicon chip designer last November.

Children’s debit card provider Greenlight is valued at $1.2bn after raising $215m in funding from a host of investors, though none of its corporate backers participated this time.