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The business optimisation services provider has pulled in series B-plus funding through a round co-led by Ipsos that will fund R&D work.

MassMutual Ventures, Synchrony and Blue Venture Fund all returned as the user authentication platform developer almost doubled its overall funding.

Access Industries helped supply $33m in equity funding for the cloud management software developer, which also unlocked up to $20m in venture debt financing.

Returning investor Comcast Ventures contributed to a round that pushed the total raised by the security management software developer to $43m.

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.