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MIT-founded machine learning software development engine company Neural Magic picked up support from Comcast Ventures for its approach to executing ML models on commodity CPUs.

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

Southern Publishing and Media and Cheetah Mobile have contributed to a $57m series C round for edtech developer Codemao.

Microsoft, Itochu and Samsung have invested in Volterra, which has emerged with $50m in funding after two years of developing its distributed cloud services technology in stealth.

Sumo Logic has purchased Dell-backed cybersecurity platform provider Jask Labs for an unspecified sum.

In addition to launching a corporate venture capital fund, Daikin has inked a deal with University of Tokyo to drive the formation of spinouts.

Daikin Industries has allocated $100m to a corporate venturing fund that will back startups internationally over a five-year period.

DotData has brought its total equity financing to $43m after adding $23m in series A funding to its coffers thanks to investors including NEC.

SoftBank invested $655m in supply chain finance provider Greensill. The deal is part of the burgeoning alternative lending space within fintech.

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