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World of Corporate Venturing 2021 editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing

Clerkie, Ketos, MedHaul, Perch, Shift, Superpedestrian and Vyv have all received funding from the banking group’s $200m Impact Fund.

Cisco Investments contributed to round bringing the cloud security platform developer's total funding to over $26m.

Draper Esprit has led a $20m series A round for Riverlane, which also attracted University of Cambridge and Cambridge Innovation Capital.

Before the commercial release of Rivians’ electric vehicles (EV) this year, Amazon has returned to back the company in a round valuing it at $27.6bn. The EV space is among the hottest in the automotive business and valuations have remained high despite the cyclical nature of demand for vehicles.

GV has participated in a $12.5m series A round for the data streaming platform provider disclosed alongside $3m in seed funding.

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

China Three Gorges, Cisco and Lenovo-backed 4Paradigm has closed a $700m series D round after more than a dozen backers threw their weight behind the enterprise AI developer.

The Dell and Orr Partners-backed cloud software developer has collected $54m in a round co-led by Greenfield Partners and Jerusalem Venture Partners.

Hitachi Global Life Solutions, Sompo and NTT Docomo provided the cash for the creator of a family companion robot called Lovot, taking its total funding to $128m.

The telecoms group has bought a 51% stake in its portfolio company Invenium, a mobility data analytics company spun out of TU Graz.