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An affiliate of Ant Financial has taken a 30% stake in the campus information platform operator, a spinout of Newcapec Electronics, following a $36.5m investment.

Existing investor Camber Creek returned for a round that increased the total raised by the property appraisal software provider to $19m.

ETH Zurich spinouts lifted their total funding haul to $173.3m from $123.1m in 2017.

SoftBank has dropped plans to buy a majority stake in WeWork, instead supplying $2bn of equity funding at a $47bn valuation.

Unilever was among the existing investors that supplied $22.9m for meal kit provider Gousto, increasing its funding to about $100m to date.

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

UAVC has returned to back UA-founded hospitality staffing platform Qwick after investing an undisclosed sum in November 2018.

The Flipkart-backed shipping services platform has raised additional capital from Accel and Sands Capital, taking its total funding to approximately $141m.

The water dispenser provider has received $15m in funding from Bluewater, which manufactures water purification products.

The restaurant reservation software provider, received $27.2m from NTT Docomo which, like Salesforce, Itochu and Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance, is an existing investor.