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Insurer NRMA returned to help the carbon-neutral courier service raise $13.7m to increase its overall funding to roughly $34m.

Yahoo Japan has exited the customer intelligence software provider in an acquisition of undisclosed size by TransUnion following more than $78m in funding.

Hearst Ventures participated in an eight-figure round for the design services marketplace late last year having led its series B in 2018.

The e-commerce platform operator’s $14.4m round came a month after an undisclosed amount from Ant Financial’s Invention Capital vehicle.

Asendia and existing investor MDI Ventures helped the e-commerce management software producer take its series C funding to $12.1m.

Online English language tutoring portal Palfish has welcomed back Susquehanna International Group for a series C round that will drive product development.

The real estate investor has secured CBRE as a limited partner for a property technology fund slated to close at $100m by the end of 2020.

Amid the covid-19 pandemic, interest in life sciences is now perhaps at its highest. This is true in corporate venture capital and three of the multimillion-dollar stories we reported in mid-August corroborate this.

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

The JD.com subsidiary is set to pay $432m for a majority stake in the GLP-backed logistics services provider through a mixture of primary and secondary investment.

The Lenovo-backed supply chain optimisation platform raised $11.4m in a Vertex China-led round that boosted its overall funding to more than $22m.