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Special report: pandemic has boosted venture dollars across health AI

The Vietnam-focused venture firm’s maiden fund has attracted commitments from limited partners Naver, Sea and Woowa Brothers on the way to a $50m target.

The online course and tutoring provider, which counts Tencent, BCC and Naspers as investors, bumped its valuation up to $10.8bn in the round.

Dollar General, Workday Ventures and NTT Docomo Ventures participated in a round that boosted the staff management software provider's total funding to more than $35m.

After the announcement of Warren Buffett’s bet on Japan’s largest trading houses, we take a brief look at how they have been doing on the corporate venturing arena.

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

The last-mile delivery service has secured $28m for the first close of a Google-backed series E round valuing it at $245m.

Singapore Airlines, SATS and Panasonic Avionics Corporation are partners for the airport and aviation-themed Aviation Tech Accelerator Program.

Facebook and SoftBank both contributed to a $150m round for Unacademy, almost trebling the online education provider’s valuation to $1.45bn.

Randstad Innovation Fund managing partners Paul Jacquin and Ilonka Jankovich have co-founded Taptrove, which will expand the thesis of the corporate fund.

Existing investors KKR and TPG provided the funding for the Emtek-backed online property portal, which withdrew from a planned IPO late last year.