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Recruitment business Andela raised $100m series D round featuring Alphabet

Incubated at Indian Institute of Science, Simyog has been backed by Robert Bosch for software that helps automotive parts manufacturers test for electromagnetic interference.

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

Tencent, JD.com and Google co-led a $1bn investment in the ride hailing service that represents the first tranche of a series F round expected to close at $2bn.

In-car connected technology developer Mogu Zhixing has received $120m in a Tencent-led series A round that included JD.com and Bertelsmann Asia Investments.

Introduction to the World of Corporate Venturing 2019

On-demand ride service Grab has received $200m from the shopping centre operator that will be channelled into its Thai subsidiary.

After a quarter of a century of healthcare investing, Barbara Dalton, senior managing partner of Pfizer Ventures, has won the Global Corporate Venturing Lifetime Achievement Award 2019.

Introduction to the GCV awards 2019 by James Mawson, editor in chief

A leading company in the e-signature and digital transaction management space, San Francisco-based DocuSign went public in April last year, with a market capitalization of $4.4bn.

Having emerged from the Merck Serono Entrepreneur Partnership Program (EPP) in 2015, Prexton Therapeutics raised a total $41m of funding before it was acquired by pharmaceutical firm Lundbeck for an estimated $1.1bn last year.