Nagraj Kashyap is leaving his position as head of Microsoft's M12 subsidiary to take up a managing partner role overseeing SoftBank's Vision Funds.

Young Sohn is retiring while Luc Julia is leaving as Sean Kae and David Lee step up and into Samsung Catalyst and Samsung Next respectively.

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

Legend Star-backed online security software provider Mysec secured $15.5m in a round co-led by Hillhouse Capital and Jiangmen Ventures.

The data sharing platform developer raised $15.5m in a Canvas Ventures-led round that included BMW i Ventures.

Q&A with Daniel Karp, director, Cisco M&A and VC investments

The ABN Amro Digital Impact Fund, Citi Ventures, Parkwood and Presidio Ventures-backed digital marketing software provider has lifted its valuation past the $1bn mark.

Nvidia, Hitachi Ventures, M12 and Samsung Catalyst Fund helped the research software tool developer double its total funding to over $100m.

Bloomberg Beta took part in a series B round enabling machine learning tool developer Weights and Biases increase its overall funding to $65m.

Citi Ventures and existing investors SAP.io and Nvidia Inception GPU Ventures backed the speech translation software developer's latest round.