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

The property developer has teamed up with Global Brain again for an $81m corporate venture capital vehicle that will have a similar focus to its predecessor.

Sabadell Venture Capital has returned to participate in a $5.9m second close for the travel platform, increasing its latest round to $18.2m.

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

Colopl Next, Mixi, Prologis, Global Bridge, Higin Capital, Higin Venture Fund and Kintetsu Venture Partners all contributed to a $12.7m round for the part-time job app developer.

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund contributed to a series B round that boosted the drone-based delivery service's total funding to $75m.

New Oriental Education and Culture Industrial Fund contributed to a series C round that lifted the educational content provider's total funding to $85m.

Lennar, SoftBank, Access Industries and Alphabet are set to score exits from the real estate transaction manager, valued at $4.8bn in the deal.

The e-commerce marketplace secured $80m in a round led by Naver and backed by its Mirae Asset-Naver Asia Growth Fund at a post-money valuation topping $900m.

Merck Global Health Innovation Fund has contributed to a $47.5m round for AeroSafe Global, which provides cold supply chain services to pharmaceutical clients.

SoftBank emerged in the news last week with its sizeable bets in the equity derivative markets in the US. Despite some recent challenges, the telecoms conglomerate has been very active in large venturing deals this year as well.