The drug injection device developer has reached the first close of a $50m round, with Sanofi leading the tranche and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and Cleveland Clinic also investing.

Media holding company WndrCo is among the investors in a series A round that helped eSports and lifestyle brand 100 Thieves take its total funding to $25m.

ZF Friedrichshafen has paid an undisclosed sum for a stake in engineering services provider ASAP Holding sized at over 35%.

Seventure Partners has injected $5.2m into the Sanger Institute spinout, which has now raised $15.2m from investors also including IP Group and Cambridge Innovation Capital.

Drug developers Sanofi and Hikma both contributed to a funding round for health management app developer Click Therapeutics to bring its total financing to more than $26m.

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

The Csiro Innovation Fund has invested $890,000 in RapidAim, co-founded by three Csiro researchers, to support a trial of a fruit fly monitoring system.

Tencent and existing backer Nio Capital both invested as autonomous driving software developer Momenta took its overall funding to $200m.

Stanford-Start X Fund has put its weight behind Oh My Green's seed round, which also attracted a host of venture capital firms.

Oxford Nanopore has secured $66m from Amgen, after the latter’s subsidiary Decode Genetics used the spinout’s technology to sequence hundreds of human genomes.