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Machine learning-focused Tau Ventures has bagged $17m for its first fund, with law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati among the limited partners.

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

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

Pachyderm, the developer of a machine learning data platform, increased its overall funding to $28m in a series B round led by Microsoft's coroporate venturing arm.

DBappSecurity and existing investor Alibaba Cloud were among the participants in a $33.3m round that will fund product development for the cloud management software provider.

The cybersecurity platform developer boosted its total funding to more than $58m in a round that included returning investor M12.

Google unit Gradient Ventures has contributed to a series A round for the sales support software developer 16 months after its seed funding.

Gamania-backed cloud marketing technology provider iKala is looking to expand across Asia following a round led by Wistron Digital Technology.

Memorial University spinout InspectAR helps design printed circuit boards and will expand its software following a purchase by Cadence Design Systems.

The Robert Bosch and Christie Digital-backed digital whiteboard developer has been bought by Lifesize after raising more than $63m in 14 years.

The consumer electronics producer will provide 40% of the capital for a fund partnership with the city of Yancheng sized at up to $1.45bn.