Nestlé bought the healthy meal kit delivery service three years after leading its series C round, in a deal that could reach $1.5bn with earnouts.

Mitsubishi was among the latest investors in the charging technology provider, joining the likes of Foxconn, Intel, Toyota, Haier, Delta, Schlumberger, Systech and Omar Zawawi Group.

Salesforce Ventures helped Odaseva, developer of an enterprise data governance platform, boost its overall funding to $40m.

Motley Fool Ventures led a series B round for water-supply intelligence provider Ketos that also included Citi and Illuminated Funds Group.

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

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

The Heska-backed company is currently working on a covid-19 test, its latest round having pushed its total equity funding to about $30m.

Clarity AI, the creator of an investment impact assessment platform, secured the funding in a round led by potential strategic partner Deutsche Börse.

University of Colorado and Osage University Partners both backed a round that took the immune regulation-focused university spinout's total funding to at least $106m.

Bloomberg Beta and Slack Fund were among the investors that provided $12m for the workplace messaging tool developer.