Ionis Pharmaceuticals and Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC were among the investors in a round that will fund development of Aro's centyrin-RNA conjugate medicines.

Kirin has become the first known corporate investor to take a small stake in the beer brand, in a deal valuing it a bit below $300m.

The corporate will get a majority stake in end-to-end construction services provider Katerra, helping it avoid bankruptcy protection.

The Alphabet, GSK, WuXi AppTec, Johnson & Johnson, Roche and Illumina-backed genetic testing service has now raised over $870m altogether.

Hanwha Systems has agreed to provide $30m in funding for the satellite technology provider, whose existing investors include Liberty Global and Intelsat.

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

The service robot technology developer has raised a fresh funding round sized at hundreds of millions of yuan, which came nine months after its $28.6m series B round.

AES and Siemens' joint energy storage venture is valued at a little over $1bn in the Qatar Investment Authority-funded transaction.

Today’s deal net round ups the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem that have occurred over the holiday period.

Meituan Dianping and New Hope Group have both thrown their backing behind a round topping $100m for production automation robot developer Flexiv.