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Alphabet-backed language learning platform developer Duolingo has now raised $183m altogether and has increased its valuation 60% to $2.4bn.

The ad optimisation platform’s IPO will enable Colopl, Credit Saison, CyberAgent, Dai Nippon Printing, Denstu, Fidelity, GMO, Gree, Mizuho, NTT, SBI and Yahoo Japan to exit.

Maersk Growth helped the food retail software provider increase the size of the round to $25m at a reported $100m valuation.

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

The $77.1m Sumisei Innovation Fund will run for a decade and back insurtech and healthtech developers, having partnered SBI Investment to identify investment opportunities.

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

Europe-wide venture firm Speedinvest has now assembled $225m for its latest fund, which will target pre-seed and seed investments.

ZZ Ventures will target developers of entrepreneurial education and content that encompass areas such as fashion, retail, tourism and cuisine.

Epco, Hitachi, Hokuriku Electric Power, Looop, Opt, Showa Shell, SK Gas, Sumitomo and Tokyo Gas are all set to exit the energy price comparison portal in an offering on TSE’s Mothers Market.

SAP Concur is set to exit the pricing and merchandising software provider, which will be added to Oracle's Opera Cloud Suite.

AP Moller – Maersk returned in an Inven Capital-led round that lifted the freight management platform developer's total funding to $103m.