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Ahead of our record-breaking GCV Innovation Summit in California this week, we are offering an excerpt from our latest World of Corporate Venturing 2020, analysing data from 2019 and the past decade, where we have combined data from GCV Analytics and data provider PitchBook.

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

Big Switch Networks, based on Stanford research, had raised more than $120m from investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital and Accton.

Goldman Sachs, already a Sysdig customer, has taken part in a series E round that boosted the cybersecurity technology developer’s overall funding to $206m.

Horizons Ventures led the round, which took the total raised by the Qualcomm, Alibaba, Thundersoft and Himax-backed edge AI chip developer to $73m.

Cloud-networking technology provider Big Switch Networks had raised more than $120m from investors including Dell Technologies Capital, Intel Capital and Accton.

Intel Capital and Samsung Next both returned for the cyber threat analysis platform's series B round, which was led by OpenView Venture Partners.

Mitsui Fudosan is set to exit the AIOps software developer, which has agreed to an acquisition by ServiceNow two months after its series B round.

The networking technology developer, which had raised $27m from investors including Intel Capital, is set to be acquired by VMWare.

Crown Castle helped add an undisclosed amount to the edge computing network developer's series C round, which has closed at $90m.

Salesforce Ventures has supported a $150m round for Snyk, already backed by GV, and helped more than double its valuation to beyond $1bn.