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

Office equipment producer Toshiba Tec has invested $5m in New Zealand-based intelligent shopping trolley developer Imagr to lead a $9.5m pre-series A round that included investment firm Sage Capital and angel investor Harald McPike. The latter two were identified as existing backers, Imagr having received an undisclosed amount from Sage Technologies, billed as McPike’s investment vehicle, in 2017.

YG Investment, the corporate venturing arm of musical entertainment provider YG Entertainment, joined investment firm Partners Investment on Tuesday to add $2.5m…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.