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Weekly corporate venturing deal net: 4-8 May 2015

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

Fundraising

Layer launches startup fund

The Bloomberg-backed communication platform has set up a fund to support startups developing apps on its platform.

Corporates flock to Flagship incubator

AstraZeneca, Nestlé Health Science and Bayer CropScience have agreed to support an incubator formed by Flagship Ventures, after backing its…