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

UK-based parking app developer AppyParking has received £7.6m ($9.9m) in funding from carmaker Hyundai Motor Company, diversified conglomerate Sumitomo and insurer Aviva’s corporate venturing division Aviva Ventures, as well as Breed Reply, the investment arm of systems integration and digital services provider Reply, and West Hill Capital, which led the round. AppyParking previously obtained $1.75m in funding from Aviva Ventures and Breed Reply in 2017, after Aviva Ventures had already injected $1.5m in 2016.

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Thierry Heles

Thierry Heles is editor-at-large of Global University Venturing and Global Corporate Venturing, and host of the Beyond the Breakthrough podcast.