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Oncology therapeutics developer Fusion Pharmaceticals closed a $105 round, featuring several corporate investors. The deal forms part of the growing broad oncology space, which has seen much attention from corporate venturers in 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.

The nautical shipping management platform raised $11m in a Microsoft-led series A round, adding to $3.5m in earlier funding.

Catering services marketplace Hungry has now raised $12.5m in total, having added university venture unit James Madison Innovations to its investment consortium.

Elara Technologies has acquired home rental platform FastFox for an amount likely to be about $15m, enabling CyberAgent to exit.

The pet food and care provider has formed an open innovation subsidiary, Kinship, which will oversee a $100m strategic investment fund.

Tencent led the academic social network and research portal's series C round, which brought its overall funding near the $35m mark.

Airbnb has confirmed an investment in the short-term accommodation platform reportedly sized at up to $200m, at a valuation substantially higher than $5bn.

WeWork has backed Proxy in a $13.6m round after introducing the company’s workplace access control system at its New York and San Francisco offices.

Tencent invested $6m as educational app developer Byju's raised $31m to boost its overall funding to more than $820m.

The outdoor educational course provider plans to expand to additional cities using the investment from WndrCo, which took its total funding to almost $30m.