SoftBank led a series A round for the robotic waiter developer that included fellow corporate investors Line Ventures, Lotte Group, Smilegate and DSC.

BMW iVentures took part in the latest round for electric motor technology developer Software Motor Company, whose earlier investors include JLL Spark.

Ahead of our record-breaking GCV Innovation Summit in California this week, we are offering an excerpt from our latest World of Corporate Venturing 2020, analysing data from 2019 and the past decade, where we have combined data from GCV Analytics and data provider PitchBook.

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.

Big Switch Networks, based on Stanford research, had raised more than $120m from investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital and Accton.

Goldman Sachs, already a Sysdig customer, has taken part in a series E round that boosted the cybersecurity technology developer’s overall funding to $206m.

Anheuser-Busch InBev, Salesforce and General Electric all contributed to the equity portion of the consulting services platform's series E round.

Cloud-networking technology provider Big Switch Networks had raised more than $120m from investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital and Accton.

MIT and Harvard spinouts will be a focal point for investment from the secnd industrial tech-oriented vehicle launched by Anzu Partners.