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US-based cybersecurity software developer DivvyCloud agreed to be acquired by security analytics provider Rapid7 for $145m in a cash and shares transaction that will give an exit to mass media group Discovery Communications.

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

Siemens has invested in Amply as part of a $13.2m round that came just three months after the EV charging service closed its seed funding.

The energy monitor developer secured $11.8m in a round co-led by Constellation Technology Ventures and backed by Chevron Technology Ventures.

Digital payment provider Stripe raised an extension to its series G round backed by Alphabet. The round is the latest in the payment tech space, which we have seen grow in the past decade.

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

BP Ventures led a series B equity and debt round for the charger provider that also featured another corporate investor, ABB Technology Ventures.

Several corporate investors backed the latest $250 round raised by data management platform developer Cohesity at a valuation of $2.5bn. The deal is part of the dynamic broader space of big data technologies which have captivated the attention of corporates over the past decade.

GCV Rising Star Jelena Markovic, formerly an investment associate at BayWa Renewable Energy’s corporate venture capital arm, has moved up to a senior associate position.

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