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EchoStar was one of the investors that provided the funding for broadband services provider Tarana, which has secured commitments for an additional $36m.

Oncology therapy developer Revolution Medicines went public giving an exit to pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

The Globis-backed startup accelerator has chosen 12 participating startups for its sophomore cohort, three months after the demo day for the initial batch.

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

Intel Capital has joined various returning investors in a $74m round that will help ZeroFox bolster the artificial intelligence capabilities of its brand protection software.

The software adoption platform developer has now secured more than $49m altogether, Cisco Investments returning for its latest round.

Oregon State University’s semiconductor production technology spinout Inpria has collected $31m in series C funding led by existing shareholder JSR Corporation.

The University Technology Fund hopes to tap investment funds and development finance institutions to raise additional capital.

Existing backer SoftBank returned to help the telecommunications data platform developer close a round co-led by four investors.

New investors PepsiCo, Maersk, Verizon and NTT Docomo joined existing backers including Avery Dennison, Amazon Web Services, Merck, Qualcomm and Samsung in the round.

Qualcomm Ventures contributed to a series E round that boosted the endpoint cybersecurity software provider's post-money valuation to $1.1bn.