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Cool Japan Fund invested $9.2m in the Line-backed mobile game developer, increasing its funding to more than $27m to date.

Since the beginning of 2018, a fifth of all corporate investors whose deals we track appear to be newcomers.

Legend Capital led a $14.5m round for the internet security technology provider that came after a SoftBank-backed round four years ago.

The Soracom and Ericsson-backed software development and management technology provider has raised $14.4m in a round that included General Electric unit GE Ventures.

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

DeNA has set up a $92.5m investment fund that will be run by its nascent corporate venture capital unit, Delight Ventures.

The Tencent-backed item location technology maker collected $45m in a Francisco Partners-led round that increased its funding to more than $104m to date.

Dentsu, Dai-ichi Life and Persol are among the investors that provided $20.4m for the product-management technology developer.

Google Assistant Investment Group joined returning investor M12 as langauge processing software developer Agolo added an undisclosed sum to its 2017 seed round.

A survey by Knowledge Transfer Ireland suggests there are now 119 active spinouts in Ireland, with Irish universities responsible for 76% of the country's patent filings last year.

Mahindra and Mahindra has led a $12.1m round for the AI-powered crop imaging software provider that will fund recruitment, IT improvements and local growth.