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Weekly corporate venturing deal net 30 May – 3 June 2016
Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.
Fundraising
Microsoft Ventures gets into direct investments
Microsoft will invest directly in startups through a new fund called Microsoft Ventures, with the old Microsoft Ventures initiative renamed Microsoft Accelerator.
The fund has been backed by a range of unnamed…