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Gamania-backed cloud marketing technology provider iKala is looking to expand across Asia following a round led by Wistron Digital Technology.

Memorial University spinout InspectAR helps design printed circuit boards and will expand its software following a purchase by Cadence Design Systems.

The Robert Bosch and Christie Digital-backed digital whiteboard developer has been bought by Lifesize after raising more than $63m in 14 years.

The consumer electronics producer will provide 40% of the capital for a fund partnership with the city of Yancheng sized at up to $1.45bn.

Sistema Asia Capital is seeking capital from external backers for a second $120m vehicle that will concentrate on Southeast Asian investments.

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance and Fuyo General Lease are among the limited partners for the unit's third fund, following its opening of an office in Japan.

The San Francisco Giants are among the investors that provided the funding for the in-game betting technology startup over multiple rounds.

Amid the covid-19 pandemic, interest in life sciences is now perhaps at its highest. This is true in corporate venture capital and three of the multimillion-dollar stories we reported in mid-August corroborate this.

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

Virtual and mixed reality headset developer Varjo more than doubled its overall funding in a round in which Volvo Cars Tech Fund reinvested.

Honeywell, Cisco Investments and Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures contributed to a round that pushed the workflow management system developer's total funding to $133m.