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

Telecommunications and internet group SoftBank has invested $10m in US-headquartered cloud communications platform developer Dialpad, adding to the $100m in series E funding the company raised in October this year at a $1.2bn valuation. Omers Growth Equity led the first close, which included internet and technology conglomerate Alphabet’s GV unit, Andreessen Horowitz, Iconiq Capital, Felicis Ventures, Section 32 and Work-Bench. Dialpad has now raised a total of $230m.

Zipari, the US-based insurance management software producer backed by health insurance…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.