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Corporate venturing deal net: 10 – 14 July 2017

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

 

Fundraising

Toyota Research Institute revs up $100m fund

Carmaker Toyota’s research division has put $100m into a unit called Toyota AI Ventures and disclosed its first three portfolio companies.

Google angles AI investments toward Gradient

Newly formed corporate venturing unit Gradient Ventures plans to back…