The calendar optimisation software provider raised $11m in funding from investors including Slack Fund, with Accel and Greylock co-leading the round.

Salesforce Ventures has invested in Traction Guest, developer of a digital corporate sign-in system, as part of its series A round.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Cardworks and GM Ventures both signed up to back financial security platform developer Spring Labs in a round that brought the latter’s funding to nearly $38m in total.

Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC contributed to Artizan Biosciences' series A round while Brii Biosciences invested through a licensing deal.

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

Swisscom Ventures has backed crypto asset security company Fireblocks, which emerged from stealth with a secure digtal-asset management platform.

Sense Photonics will use the proceeds from the round, which includes Samsung Ventures and Shell Ventures, to bring its lidar system to market.

Corporate VC partnership returned to reinvest in the enterprise AI software developer after backing it at launch late last year.

Lidar technology developer Sense Photonics has emerged from stealth with $26m in series A funding from investors co-led by the UC-backed Congruent Ventures.