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

Sonos paid $37.5m to buy the voice app development platform, which had received more than $21m in funding from investors including Maif Avenir.

Cloud upload technology developer CloudSimple has become part of Google Cloud having raised funding from Microsoft subsidiary M12 last year.

As we are about to close our current annual survey, we take a peek at some of the insights provided by last year’s survey.

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

The robotic process automation platform developer received the funding at a $6.8bn valuation, Salesforce Ventures leading a round featuring SoftBank Investment Advisers.

Koch Disruptive Technologies led the series D round, which valued the 4D imaging sensor provider at more than $600m.

Wipro-backed proactive cybersecurity technology developer Intsights has raised series D capital from Qumra Capital and others to bring its total funding to more than $54m.

Consensys and Coinbase Ventures came in as new investors, participating in a $25.5m round that came eight months after the blockchain software startup's seed funding.

KPN Ventures was among the investors as cybersecurity developer ZecOps attracted $10.2m that will be spent on recruitment and platform development.

UC Berkeley-focused House Fund II has raised $44m from investors including endowments for the university and the wider University of California ecosystem.