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The Bloomberg-sponsored venture firm, which focuses on the future of work, has put $75m each into a fourth fund and an opportunity fund, and now has $375m under management.

Astra Group took part in a $41m round for digital bank Yap while GV led artificial intelligence developer platform Modular AI's $30m seed round.

We've condensed down three days of talks, networking and demos at the GCVI Summit in Monterey into these insights.

Three carmakers helped semiconductor producer CanSemi raise $670m while 574 Invest, RATP Group and Groupe Chopard backed a $167m round for vehicle charging network Electra.

Chanel and Kraft Group were among the investors in Evolved By Nature’s $120m series C round, while Prosus led a $39m series B for Sharebite.

Zoom Ventures and RingCentral Ventures invested in video coaching sessions provider TaskHuman’s $20m series B round.

Siemens and Volkswagen provided $450m for the latter's Electrify America subsidiary while Leaps by Bayer helped push ReCode Therapeutics‘ series B round to $200m.

BlackBerry Ivy Innovation Fund put up capital to advance cost savings in vehicular maintenance.

If a CVC unit wants to bring in outside money, it needs a great track record, a unique angle and skin in the game.

Susquehanna Growth Equity has led a $62m series B round for speech-to-text software provider Speechmatics, while Fidelity’s Eight Roads unit led digital asset data aggregator Kaiko's $53m series B.

Prosus helped B2B e-commerce platform ShopUp lift its series B round to $174m while SPIL Ventures co-led a $70m series C for trucking optimisation platform Deliveree.