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VC fund 01 Advisors chipped in $14.5m to extend the corporate-backed IT management software provider's latest round to $39.5m.

Juniper Networks, Intel and IBM returned for a round led by Dell Technologies Capital that took the application development platform's total funding to $77m.

Imperial College London has opened a new funding stream for its early-stage research with the launch of its Parkwalk Advisors-managed Innovation Fund.

Fibre optic networking technology developer Elenion Technologies has agreed to be sold after receiving a strategic investment from Koch unit Molex Ventures two years ago.

UMC Capital is set to exit data storage platform developer SwiftStack in an acquisition by Nvidia six years after the company's most recent funding.

The event data platform developer has been acquired after raising $30m from investors including Hewlett Packard Enterprise's Pathfinder unit.

Alphabet’s self-driving car developer Waymo raised its first external funding in a round backed by its parent company and two other corporates.

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

Dell Technologies Capital contributed to a $12m round for silicon-based lidar chip developer Silc alongside Decent Capital and Itic Ventures.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

SoftBank, JA Mitsui Leasing, Dell and Samsung have all exited the bare-metal server technology provider, which had raised $36m prior to the acquisition.