Services

The tourism ticketing platform has received $60m in a round led by Airbnb that brought its funding to more than $105m altogether.

Intel Capital portfolio company Schoology has been picked up by PowerSchool, which will integrate the cloud-based curriculum management software platform with its Unified Classroom service.

The big data platform Databricks raised $400m reportedly at $6.2bn valuation, with the backing of Microsoft. The company forms part of the broader big data tech space, in which corporates have been heavily investing over recent years.

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.

Dahong Group, Junfa Group, Prosperity Holdings and Yintai Land are all in line for exits after the workspace provider confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the US.

Hearst-backed interior design services marketplace Kujiale raised the money at a reported $1bn valuation and has now secured more than $210m in total.

The Jabbar Internet Group-backed apartment rental service secured $50m in a series B round that brought its total funding to $78m as it prepares to enter the UK market.

Almajdouie-backed human resources management platform Bayzat took its funding to $31m altogether in its series B round co-led by Point72 Ventures and Mubadala Capital.

Jin Jiang International and Legend Holdings will get exit routes through the deal, which is set to give SoftBank a stake in the workspace provider sized at about 80%.

Emtek, which had planned to sell as much as $55m worth of shares, will have to wait longer for an exit after the real estate marketplace withdrew from the proposed offering.