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The temporary employment service provider has completed a series B round backed by corporates including Mixi, Nexyz Group, Prologis, JR East, Kids Holdings, Gosso, WDI Corporation and SBS Holdings.

The petsitting service, which received $300m from SoftBank Vision Fund at a $650m valuation last year, is considering selling itself to Petco.

The apartment rental services provider, which counts Ant Financial, UCommune and Bertelsmann as investors, has filed for a $100m IPO on the New York Stock Exchange.

Silver Lake led a $319m round for the Assurant-backed holiday home rental platform at a valuation exceeding $1bn, with the cash to go to expanding its property services.

The tourism ticketing platform has received $60m in a round led by Airbnb that brought its funding to more than $105m altogether.

Intel Capital portfolio company Schoology has been picked up by PowerSchool, which will integrate the cloud-based curriculum management software platform with its Unified Classroom service.

The big data platform Databricks raised $400m reportedly at $6.2bn valuation, with the backing of Microsoft. The company forms part of the broader big data tech space, in which corporates have been heavily investing over recent years.

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

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

Dahong Group, Junfa Group, Prosperity Holdings and Yintai Land are all in line for exits after the workspace provider confidentially filed for an initial public offering in the US.

Hearst-backed interior design services marketplace Kujiale raised the money at a reported $1bn valuation and has now secured more than $210m in total.