Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
Lyra Health, the mental health access platform backed by healthcare provider Providence Health and Services, has raised an undisclosed amount from venture capital fund Plus Capital and assorted individuals. Providence investment vehicle Providence Ventures took part in a $110m series D round for Lyra in August this year at a $1.1bn valuation alongside Addition, Adams Street Partners, Casdin Capital, Glynn Capital, Greylock Partners, IVP, Meritech Capital Partners, Tenaya Capital and Howard Schultz to take its total funding past $268m.
Karakuri, a UK-based developer of robotics technology for the food industry, completed a £6.3m ($8.4m) funding round on Wednesday that included grocery delivery service Ocado Group. VC firm Firstminute Capital led the round, which also featured Hoxton Ventures, Taylor Brothers and the UK government’s Future Fund, and which came in the wake of a $9.1m round in May 2019 led by Ocado and backed by Hoxton Ventures, Firstminute Capital…
