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Microsoft's M12 unit and CreditEase Israel Innovation Fund returned for a series C round that took the container coding platform developer's overall funding to $42m.

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

University of Kent's UltraSoc Technologies, which provides integrated circuit safety technologies, has agreed to an acquisition by Siemens.

The endpoint management software provider has secured roughly $120m from strategic partner Salesforce, bumping its valuation up from $6.5bn to $9bn.

Hogil Doh has ascended to a chief operating officer position at Yahoo Japan’s investment arm, after joining in February from fellow corporate venturing unit Rakuten Ventures.

Mastercard will buy financial data technology provider Finicity in a deal that could reach $985m, giving Experian an exit. This is yet another large exits in this space this year after the acquisitions of Plaid and Credit Karma earlier.

The corporates are extending a partnership that stretches back to their investment in recruitment startup TalentEx two years ago.

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

The SIG-backed video communication software provider priced its shares above the range and will go public later today.

AMD and ConsenSys formed the decentralised data centre developer as a joint venture and have both contributed to a $20.5m round.

Alibaba and Sistema VC returned for a $39.4m round that took the total raised by the data analysis platform developer to more than $76m.