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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.

Romulus builds $75m fund

The fund has been backed by a range of unnamed…