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First Round's inaugural cohort includes a manga comic translation tool developer and a company working on synthetic options for creating salmon.

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

Goldman Sachs has thrown its weight behind Forward Networks, bringing the networking technology producer’s total funding to more than $62m.

Emergency response support platform RapidSOS added $25m to close a series B round that already featured CSAA and Microsoft's M12 unit.

Qorvo has purchased a portfolio company, radio frequency technology developer Cavendish Kinetics, which was spun out of Cambridge two decades ago.

Dell, Cisco, Salesforce, Deutsche Telekom and Telstra all participated in a round that boosted web traffic management technology provider NS1’s total funding to more than $85m.

Unqork has now raised $110m in total, CapitalG having led a series B round featuring earlier backers that include Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments.

Our analysis shows that venturing rounds at most stages have grown their median dollar size. Later-stage rounds have experienced a much more pronounced growth.

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

Notion Capital Venture Capital IV has added Texas A&M University to its limited partners as it seeks a $150m final close.

Microsoft and Capital One-backed software integration platform developer SnapLogic has secured additional funding in an Arrowroot Capital-led round.