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Visa is to acquire one of its portfolio companies, financial data network operator Plaid, in multi-billion-dollar transaction, which comes only four months after its latest commitment to the company along with its peer Mastercard.

Axa Venture Partners returned for a round that boosted employee onboarding software developer Phenom People's overall funding to $61m.

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

March Capital has led a round that boosted the overall funding for the Stanford-backed enterprise data management platform to $75m.

Stanford-StartX's Zinier took its overall funding to $120m in a round that included returning investor Qualcomm Ventures, with the cash to go to international growth and product development.

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

Zinier took its overall funding to $120m in a round that included returning investor Qualcomm Ventures, with the cash to go to international growth and product development.

Brentwood Associates led a round that will fund US expansion by the Comcast and 7-Eleven-backed digital locksmith along with an expansion of its services.

M12 and Akamai both invested in the identity verification platform developer, which increased its funding haul to $38m altogether.

Backed by a host of corporates, e-commerce services provider aCommerce has secured $15m as it continues to seek profitability for its Southeast Asia-focused business.

The supply-chain digitisation platform raised the debt and equity financing from a consortium of new and existing investors potentially including several corporates.