WarnerMedia Investments, the corporate venturing unit formerly known as Time Warner Investments, has reportedly shut while managing director Allison Goldberg has left the company.

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

University of Cambridge’s affiliate patient capital fund has returned to take part in an $8.4m round for video content management platform Imagen after previously investing in 2014 and 2016.

A raft of corporates are set to exit free online television streaming platform Pluto TV after Viacom agreed to buy it for $340m.

Viacom could potentially pay between $300m and $500m to acquire the online streaming platform, whose investors include Sky, Samsung, Scripps, ProSiebenSat.1, UTA, Universal Music Group and Windsor Media.

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

Mattel, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, JF Shea and Sesame Workshop have exited connected toy producer in an all-share acquisition by Byju's.

Google's augmented reality game spinoff has secured $245m in a Samsung and Axiomatic-backed series C round at a $4bn post-money valuation.

Samsung is reportedly eyeing Tel Aviv University-founded smartphone camera technology developer Corephotonics for $150m to $160m after backing its series B and C rounds.

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