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Chinese Academy of Sciences-owned Cash Capital secured an exit as big data cybersecurity technology provider HanSight was acquired for an undisclosed sum.

Legend Capital co-led a $282m series B round for chipmaker Eswin Computing Technology which will use the money to fund R&D, recruitment and manufacturing.

Osage University Partners is in line for an exit as the anti-malware software developer, based on UCSB and Northeastern research, agrees to an acquisition.

Barracuda Networks, Dell, Sumitomo, WatchGuard Technologies and NTT Finance are set to exit the anti-malware software developer through the transaction.

SoftBank led a $500m round for the driverless vehicle software spinoff of the ride hailing company Didi Chuxing.

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

NetApp has agreed to pay a reported $450m to buy the cloud workload management platform, which had raised $52m in funding from investors including Intel Capital.

Cloud collaboration software provider Exostar was formed by BAE, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Rolls-Royce before Merck & Co became a shareholder in 2014.

Penna and Company contributed to a round that lifted the total raised by the QBE and TD Ameritrade-backed enterprise automation software provider to $111m.

Cortex, a developer of big data-powered marketing tools, raised $22.3m in a round led by SoftBank's Latin America fund.

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