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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.

Remote care platform developer Conversa increased its total funding to more than $26m in a round co-led by Northwell Ventures and backed by UH Ventures.

Bond market data provider Neptune Networks attracted several of its financial services partners to close its first publicly disclosed round.

The retail collaboration platform developer has now raised more than $52m in total, existing backer SEB Alliance returning for a $23.9m round.

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

The shopping delivery app developer, which counts Comcast, American Express and Amazon among its investors, boosted its valuation to $13.7bn in the round.

The SoftBank-backed food delivery app developer is reportedly close to raising new funding at a pre-money valuation in excess of $15bn.

AstraZeneca and Fresenius Medical Care will exit the kidney disease treatment developer in a $725m acquisition that could potentially rise to $2.1bn.

The social media operator is seeking a head of investments for its NPE subsidiary who will reportedly work with Gradient Ventures alumnus Shabih Rizvi.

Novo co-led the series C round with Longitude Capital and Checkmate will use the cash to advance clinical development of its lead asset, which is targeting melanoma.

The Bloomberg-backed data science management platform increased its overall funding to $128m in a round featuring Dell Technologies Capital.