Honda and existing investors EDF and Siemens all contributed to a $22.7m round that will fund the expansion of Ubitricity's EV charging network.

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

Rabobank has contributed to Gilde Healthcare’s third private equity fund, which will focus on established and profitable businesses in the Benelux and Dach countries.

Digital insurance startup Friday has pulled in funding from majority shareholder Baloise as well as SevenVentures and German Media Pool.

Fraunhofer has invested in Enerthing, which is launching IoT products powered by solar foils invented in partnership with Fraunhofer ISE.

Health for Life Capital II has achieved its first close thanks to commitments from strategic partners Danone, Novartis, Lesaffre, Wright Medical, Unicéréales and Bel.

Alicia Irurzun-Lafitte has departed from a principal position at M Ventures for a partner role at another pharmaceutical firm's corporate venturing fund, UCB Ventures.

ETH’s Paul Scherrer Institute has launched Araris Biotech to deliver production technology for site-specific ADCs that enable them to be used without being engineered from each patient.

Satt Sud-Est spinouts Click4Tag, C4Hydro and C4Biocontrol will merge to boost the commercialisation of microbe monitoring technologies built on research from six institutions.

Hearst and Alphabet-backed music services group Kobalt is gearing up to raise its largest funding round to date, in a deal potentially sized at more than $100m.