The Parkwalk-managed co-investment fund has supplied Cambridge cancer therapy spinout PolyProx Therapeutics with capital, augmenting a $4.4m seed round for the latter announced earlier this month.

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

ICL medical device developer GripAble has added funding from Triple Point Impact EIS Investment Fund to $198,000 of equity secured from investors including Oxford Technology Management in 2017.

Power grid management technology developer Synaptec spun out of University of Strathclyde in 2014 and has now won support from the corporate-backed Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.

Arm has returned to co-lead 5G network product manufacturer Blu Wireless's latest round after previously backing the Bristol spinout in 2017.

The additional cash will allow University of Nottingham biomedicine spinout Locate Bio to advance two internal programs and support its collaborations with external partners.

The board at Flinders University-founded medical avatar software platform Clevertar has agreed to pump in funding to clear the spinout's outstanding liabilities to creditors including the university.

Icometrix developers brain imaging technology based on KU Leuven and University of Antwerp research to help assess conditions such as Alzheimer’s disease.

MassMutual Ventures SEA, MDI Ventures and Central Capital Ventura have participated in the insurtech provider’s seed round sized at more than $1.5m.

NextStep Robotics, which last raised funding in February 2018, is commercialising research from two University of Maryland campuses and the Baltimore Veterans Affairs Motor Performance Laboratory.