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One vaccine developer, CureVac, has received a generous backing from Germany’s government-owned development bank KfW, while another – Vaxcyte – went public raising $250m.

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

Salesforce and National Grid took part in a series B round for the infrastructure monitoring technology developer that was co-led by Petronas subsidiary Piva.

Salesforce Ventures returned to participate in a round that hiked DevOps technology provider Copado's overall funding to $47m.

MIT Media Lab's E14 fund has contributed to a round that will fund research and development for the logistics management platform developer.

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

Big data analysis provider Palantir has followed a $50m investment by Fujitsu with $500m from its partner in a Japanese joint venture.

Slack’s corporate venture capital arm has reinvested in the data integration tool provider’s series B round, bringing its overall funding to $43m.

The content management system developer took its total funding to $158m in a series E round that included existing investor Salesforce Ventures.

The demographic phenomenon of ageing populations will present challenges to both developed and developing nations. Along with the challenges come opportunities, however, and corporate venture capitalists may be a particularly well-positioned group to help with them, as it is the connecting tissue between the world of incumbent corporate industry leaders and the space of disruptive innovation.

Slack-backed smart calendar developer Clockwise has now raised $31m altogether, Bain Capital Ventures having led its series B round.