Cool Japan Fund invested $9.2m in the Line-backed mobile game developer, increasing its funding to more than $27m to date.

Since the beginning of 2018, a fifth of all corporate investors whose deals we track appear to be newcomers.

Legend Capital led a $14.5m round for the internet security technology provider that came after a SoftBank-backed round four years ago.

The Soracom and Ericsson-backed software development and management technology provider has raised $14.4m in a round that included General Electric unit GE Ventures.

Red Star Macalline has invested in drug manufacturing services provider Mingdu Intelligent as part of a round that will fund the latter's R&D marketing efforts.

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

Harvard Medical School spinout TScan has come out of stealth with $48m in funding provided by investors including GV and two Novartis units.

Standard Industries and existing investors Comcast Ventures, Lennar and Propel Venture Partners all contributed to a series D round that boosted the online insurer's total funding to $209m.

DeNA has set up a $92.5m investment fund that will be run by its nascent corporate venture capital unit, Delight Ventures.

The Alphabet and Novartis-backed T cell cancer therapy developer has secured series B capital that took its overall funding to $48m.