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Coloridoh, Ellie, Hakken, Greenspoon, TechMagic and Lyxis will all join the five-month programme overseen by Ajinomoto Group Accelerator powered by 01Booster.

The Alphabet-backed accommodation marketplace priced its initial public offering well above its range in the second huge flotation this week, to secure a $47bn valuation.

YJ Capital, Sansei Capital, Kiraboshi Capital, Nanto CVC and Shinsei Corporate Investment were among the investors that helped the holiday booking app developer close a $12.5m round.

JIC Venture Growth Investments has injected $19.2m into the IoT technology developer, which is already backed by Dentsu, NEC, NGK, Mikasa Shoji, Mitsui, Salesforce, SoftBank and Toyoda Gosei.

JIC has provided $28.8m for the digital consulting company, whose corporate backers include Dentsu, Digital Garage, Japan Post, Pasona, San-In Chuo, Serverworks and Yahoo Japan.

Alphabet unit CapitalG supplied $5m in a round representing the second time it has backed the online maths tutorial provider.

The ByteDance-backed learning software and tutoring services provider priced its shares in the middle of their range as it went public in the US.

Cloud-based enterprise software producer Salesforce agreed to acquire Slack, the US-based publicly listed communication platform which previously counted telecoms firm SoftBank, internet conglomerate Alphabet and media group Comcast among its backers.

Eight Roads Ventures Japan has led a $12.5m round for the employee performance management software provider, investing alongside AG Capital, Dai-ichi Life, SCSK and SMBC Venture Capital.

The internet company's $28.9m vehicle will target digitalisation technology developers focusing on the live entertainment industry.

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