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Overview of three of the largest initial public offerings (IPOs) from 2020 in which the China-based internet company either scored an exit or increased its stake.

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

The e-commerce marketing software provider boosted its valuation to $1.4bn in a round that included Access Industries' Claltech subsidiary.

Globis, Nippon Life and Resona have exited the post-graduation job search service provider in an offering on TSE’s Mothers Market.

Tokyo University of Science is set to exit the recruitment services group in an IPO in Tokyo.

The identity verification platform developer was valued at $1.3bn in a round featuring Synchrony Financial, Citi Ventures and Wells Fargo Strategic Capital.

Dentsu, Globis, Gree, Link and Motivation, Rakuten, Salesforce and Yahoo Japan are set to exit the recruitment services group in an IPO in Tokyo.

Educational data software developer Kidaptive had raised more than $30m from investors including Prana Studios and Woongjin ThinkBig.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 and Tencent have co-led the intellectual property management platform’s series E round, which reportedly valued it at over $1bn.

Fidelity Management & Research has joined new and returning investors to back the website creation platform developer’s latest round at a $10bn valuation.

Alibaba led a $30.8m round that helped the customer service software developer close its third round in the space of less than a year.