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

Today’s deal net round ups the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem that have occurred over the holiday period.

Investors have thrown their backing behind a round topping $100m for Stanford-linked production automation robot developer Flexiv.

The intelligent chipmaker, which counts Microsoft, Samsung, BMW, Robert Bosch and Dell as investors, secured series E funding at a $2.77bn valuation.

Capital One Ventures was among the exiting investors at data protection software provider Vera, which had raised $50m pre-acquisition.

The SFC-backed vaccine developer has wrapped up its series B-2 round after holding an initial close in early 2019.

The Novartis-backed retinal disease drug developer has secured $46.9m of series B capital from investors including Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JJDC.

You.i TV has been bought by investor WarnerMedia, which plans to implement its technology in its HBO Max on-demand service in Europe and Latin America.

Yardi's acquisition of mortgage brokerage software developer CommissionTrac has enabled seed investor Cox Enterprises to exit.

U-M's retinal disease drug developer has secured $46.9m of series B capital from investors including Mints.