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Autodesk has led a $26.8m series C round for aPriori, a spinout of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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

Norwest Venture Partners alumni Amit Garg and Sanjay Rao have formed a venture firm called Tau Ventures, Garg having also spent time at Samsung Next.

SAP, Salesforce and Comcast swere among the investors for a round bringing enterprise data protection software developer BigID's overall funding to $96m.

Kuehne + Nagel and Temasek's joint investment venture has launched with its first fund, to back logistics and supply chain technology startups.

Fantasy sports platform Dream11 is reportedly aiming to raise a round sized at $500m to be backed by several corporate investors. The company is part of the broader gaming and eSport space which has seen growth recently.

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

Stanford-StartX Fund is set to exit the IoT security platform developer in a $75m purchase by Palo Alto Networks.

The cybersecurity software provider has received $14m from Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners and Salesforce Ventures and has now raised $91.5m to date.

Dell Technologies Capital is set to exit the IoT security platform developer in a $75m purchase by Palo Alto Networks.

The app engagement software developer raised the funding in a Liberty Technology Venture Capital-led round featuring Amdocs and existing investor Axa.