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The corporate-backed coding education platform secured $35.3m in funding as its business receives a boost from the coronavirus lockdown.

Digital payment provider Stripe raised an extension to its series G round backed by Alphabet. The round is the latest in the payment tech space, which we have seen grow in the past decade.

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.

Wujiang Hotels, Baicheng and Meili Jinrong are among the first wave of China-based companies to close due to Covid-19 restrictions.

The Digital Garage-backed real estate listings portal bumped its latest round up to $80m with a $30m investment helmed by General Atlantic.

The educational app developer raised the money as part of a wider round it is reportedly looking to close at between $100m and $150m.

Several corporate investors backed the latest $250 round raised by data management platform developer Cohesity at a valuation of $2.5bn. The deal is part of the dynamic broader space of big data technologies which have captivated the attention of corporates over the past decade.

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

Duke University's endowment has supplied follow-on funding to Teamworks, which offers software for coordinating schedules within sports teams.

Existing investors M12 and Salesforce Ventures contributed to a $100m round for the identity verification technology provider, which is also backed by CreditEase and SBI.