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Bare metal connectivity service provider Packet had raised $36m in funding from investors including Samsung, Dell, SoftBank and JA Mitsui Leasing.

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Sector analysis: Transport

Nio Capital has led a $14.5m series C round for BoCloud that also attracted existing backer JD Cloud, a contributor to its last round.

In our annual survey of corporate venturing industry leaders, we asked what the most important trends were in 2019 and sought their insights into the big opportunities of 2020.

Insight Partners agreed to acquire IoT security software provider Armis in a rollover transaction that featured a $100m commitment from Alphabet. The deal forms part of the IoT space to which corporates have not been indifferent over the past decade.

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

Access Industries invested in the data simplification software producer as part of a round that lifted its overall funding to $300m and its valuation above $1bn.

The avatar software provider has ramped up its series B round to $40m, adding Salesforce Ventures to a consortium that already included Daimler.

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

The digital risk-management platform developer took in the funding through a round that was co-led by Tencent and backed by existing investor Baidu.