IT

Sector analysis: IT

More than 80% of CNBC's 50 top disruptors list is CVC backed.

CyberAgent has added seven team members at its corporate venturing unit in a bid to help portfolio companies in areas including technical aspects and public relations.

An unnamed endowment is among the LPs in Engineering Capital's third fund, which is aligned to the innovation pipelines at Stanford, Michigan and Toronto.

Continental Grain-backed vegan food producer Perfect Day has raised $160m, increasing its series C round to $300m.

Foxconn has exited the internet connectivity technology producer in an acquisition of undisclosed size by enterprise software supplier Twilio.

The database software provider has taken the size of its Alibaba and Intel Capital-backed series C round to $79m and its total funding past $125m.

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

Nasdaq Ventures returned to reinvest in the cybersecurity software developer through a round that hiked its overall funding to $49m.

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

Manulife, Northwestern Mutual, State Farm and Prudential have exited remote deal management platform Liveoak in an all-share acquisition.