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University of Oxford held its inaugural artificial intelligence-focused conference last month, bringing together investors and the world’s foremost researchers in the area.

Academic research towards quantum computing and other quantum technologies is beginning to pay dividends, but continued progress will rely on strong cooperation between academic, industry and government partners.

Existing backer Robert Bosch Venture Capital chipped in as machine vision technology producer Prophesee closed a round that took its total funding to $68m.

Qualcomm's corporate venturing unit will invest up to $200m in 5G-related technology developers through the newly minted 5G Ecosystem Fund.

The big data platform Databricks raised $400m reportedly at $6.2bn valuation, with the backing of Microsoft. The company forms part of the broader big data tech space, in which corporates have been heavily investing over recent years.

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, Samsung Catalyst Fund and National Grid Partners are all set to exit the edge computing technology developer in a purchase of undisclosed size.

The security system developer has joined forces with investors including controlling shareholder China Electronic Technology to form an investment fund to target areas such as IoT and robotics.

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

Big data software producer Transwarp has received $71m of series D2 funding, following previous rounds that included corporates Tencent and TCL.

Andreessen Horowitz has led a $400m round for the data preparation software provider based on UC Berkeley research, more than doubling its valuation to $6.2bn in eight months.