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New and existing investors including SoftBank are talking to the short-term accommodation platform over a round that could value it at $10bn.

Yanolja has collected $180m in funding from Booking Holdings and Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC, valuing the short-term room rental service at more than $1bn.

Online services marketplace operator Thumbtack has added $120m to its funding arsenal, bringing the Alphabet-backed company’s total equity to more than $390m.

Auth0, CircleCI and Stripe have jointly launched a support scheme dubbed Go_SaaS to help startups promote software-as-a-service platforms.

SoftBank backed online lender Creditas, a company from the alternative lending space, which does not seem to have experienced exponential growth in valuations.

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

CyberAgent, GMO, Japan Post, Nikkei, Nippon Life, Recruit and Salesforce-backed Sansan priced its shares at the top of its range today and will raise $360m including the over-allotment option.

Randstad Innovation Fund and Google's Gradient Ventures invested in a series B round that boosted the recruitment automation platform’s total funding to $64m.

The delivery services platform secured $100m in a round led by returning investor SoftBank Vision Fund, while another SoftBank fund considers adding $50m.

Sales-team support software provider Highspot has now raised a total of $122m, having secured additional funding from investors including Salesforce Ventures.

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