University of Zurich spinout Vay Sports has launched having raised an undisclosed amount from investors including Swisscom and WelcomeAI.

Inspection robot manufacturer Invert Robotics was founded out of University of Canterbury in 2011 and has now secured corporate Yamaha Motor as an investor in its latest round.

Vay Sports has been spun out of University of Zurich to commercialise a fitness app that exploits computer vision to monitor a user's posture.

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

Scottish Investment Bank and Innovate UK were among those backing University of Strathclyde brain cancer diagnosis spinout ClinSpec Diagnostics.

UCL bowel cancer diagnostics spinout Odin Vision has attracted the UCL Technology Fund in a round that will support trials of its first computer vision-powered product.

Spun out of University of Nantes and research institute Inserm, GoLiver Therapeutics hopes to catalyse a stem cell-based regenerative drug candidate for the treatment of acute and chronic severe liver failure.

SoftBank is investing an amount reported to be approximately $556m in tour booking service GetYourGuide, though the company itself has not provided confirmation.

Tencent has provided a nine-figure renminbi sum for Eastern Jinxin as part of a data research and development partnership with its cloud computing subsidiary.

Amgen is among the seed investors for Stanford-licensed drug release technology developer Navan Technologies, which hopes its nanoinjection technique will enable more cell and gene therapies to be produced at scale.