SoftBank Vision Fund owns more than 7% of the enterprise messaging platform developer, which could list at a valuation near $17bn.

NTT Docomo has invested $280m in Magic Leap through a strategic partnership, bringing the AR technology developer’s total funding to more than $2.6bn.

The sales management platform developer increased its overall funding to $145m with a LinkedIn-backed round that reportedly valued it at about $600m.

The RNAi therapeutics developer increased its series C funding to $47m following a second tranche led by corporate joint venture CR-CP Life Sciences Fund.

Siemens' Next47 subsidiary returned for Verkada's latest round, which valued the smart security system developer at $540m.

The MassMutual and Siemens-backed data protection software producer has received another $30m in a round that took its total funding to $173m.

Sports Tech Tokyo, a joint sportstech accelerator initiative between Dentsu and Scrum Ventures, has chosen the first group of startups since its launch in October last year.

R/GA-backed consumer goods return service provider Happy Returns took its funding to $25m to date in a PayPal-backed round.

Disney and NextVR-backed eSports group Axiomatic has now raised a total of $89m in funding, after adding $21.5m from undisclosed investors.

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