The Motley Fool-backed chef services marketplace is now valued at more than $120m and has raised in excess of $32m in funding.

The event data platform developer has been acquired after raising $30m from investors including Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Pathfinder unit.

Lightspeed Venture Partners has taken $20m from the insurer for two funds whose predecessors closed at a combined $2.1bn.

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

Dell Technologies Capital contributed to a $12m round for silicon-based lidar chip developer Silc alongside Decent Capital and Itic Ventures.

MIT Media Lab-affiliated E14 Fund has invested in the biomanufacturing software provider as part of a series A round led by Cultivian Sandbox Ventures.

Paula Sorrell will join George Mason University as associate vice-president of innovation and economic development in May.

SoftBank, JA Mitsui Leasing, Dell and Samsung have all exited the bare-metal server technology provider, which had raised $36m prior to the acquisition.

Electric skateboard producer Boosted, backed by Stanford-StartX Fund, has laid off employees after its business model succumbed amid the US-China tariff war.

The IoT security software provider has raised $50m in total, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and Mayo Clinic having boosted its series B round to a likely $33.5m.