IT

Telefónica-owned ElevenPaths has bought cybersecurity training service iHackLabs, which received funding from Telefónica's Wayra unit in 2018.

Frontier IP has secured the services of software development veteran Mark Rosten to supervise IT deal flow and product deployment at its portfolio companies.

Digital marketing platform developer Optimizely has agreed to be bought after raising $200m from investors including Citi, Salesforce, Accenture and Alphabet.

The Qualcomm and Robert Bosch-backed facial recognition technology developer raised $43m in funding from unnamed backers five months after Microsoft exited.

Accenture Ventures and existing investor Bloomberg Beta helped the data management platform developer take its total funding to about $40m.

After the announcement of Warren Buffett’s bet on Japan’s largest trading houses, we take a brief look at how they have been doing on the corporate venturing arena.

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

The online collaboration platform developer pulled in $13m through a series B round led by SoftBank Ventures Asia to take its total funding to more than $24m.

UVC Partners has backed what appears to be financial document processing software company Hypatos's first funding round.

Dialpad has bought the video conferencing technology developer, which had raised more than $77m from investors including GV and Dimension Data.

Ascential, Akamai, Experian, ITV and Xandr all invested as the marketing data sharing platform raised $15.1m to help it expand in North America and Europe.