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Lockheed Martin doubled the size of its venture arm to $400m while Ingevity, Geely, SKC and Daishin participated in Nexeon’s $170m series A round.

The unnamed vehicle was revealed at the inauguration of Panela House, the corporate’s Brazil-based open innovation space.

Xiamen C&D took part in OriCell Therapeutics’ $120m series B round while Shopify provided $100m in funding for Klaviyo.

The corporate is targeting companies it hopes will advance beauty retail and transform the shopping experience with digital technology.

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Social Leverage Acquisition Corp I will acquire AMD and ConsenSys-backed W3BCloud while China Life took part in a $300m round for Taibang Biologic.

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Innovation seems threatening to legacy thinking in the region, preventing corporates from going into high-performance mode.

Deutsche Telekom and Salesforce-backed PerimeterX is joining forces with Human Security while M12 and Alexandria Venture Investments took part in Ozette’s $26m series A round.