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UC Berkeley-founded Anyscale has come out of stealth with the backing of investors including House Fund, Ant Financial and Intel Capital.

UC Boulder-founded quantum atomic core developer ColdQuanta has picked up $10m in seed capital from two existing investors.

Intel Capital and Ant Financial have invested in a $20.6m round disclosed by the distributed programming app developer as it came out of stealth.

Stanford University joined StartX to back Alchemy, a blockchain protocol company founded by two of its alumni.

HubSpot has exited email marketing platform developer Sigstr in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Terminus.

Samsung and Coinbase were among the investors that put up a total of $15m for Alchemy, which the blockchain protocol developer revealed when it emerged from stealth.

Guangxi Royal Dairy committed nearly half the capital for the venture firm's latest fund, which has closed at $86.7m.

Intel Capital has scored an exit after its parent company bought AI training technology provider Habana in a $2bn deal.

Salesforce Ventures invested in an $18m round that will fund acquisitions for the cloud tools and services provider, which said it has now raised $26m in total.

This taster from the World of Corporate Venturing survey shows which technologies corporate venturers have their eye on

Global Corporate Venturing has just closed its annual survey, which forms a definitive overview of the industry. The World of Corporate Venturing 2020 report will be published in January.