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Microsoft's corporate venturing unit has led a series B round for SpyCloud, which increased the cybersecurity platform's overall funding to $28.5m.

Alphabet's CVC unit has taken part in a $20m funding round for the identity protection platform, investing alongside Wing and existing backer Greylock Partners.

GV has returned for a $40m series E round for Ionic Security, which also attracted Google as a separate investor and brought its total funding to $162m.

Alphabet's corporate venturing subsidiary has led the series B round, which increased cybersecurity technology developer Cmd's overall funding to $21.6m.

Qualcomm's corporate venturing unit has taken part in the Centerview Capital Technology-led round, which will ramp up the company's 5G networking services.

The MIT-founded manufacturing app development spinout has now received more than $31m from investors including Vertex Ventures US, Pitango, NEA and C4 Ventures.

VoiceAI Technologies collected funding from investors including Hong Kong X Technology Fund after launching a research collaboration with Hong Kong University of Science Technology.

Vast Data has emerged from stealth with a total of $80m in funding raised over two rounds from investors such as Dell Technologies Capital.

SK China, SK Hynix and several unnamed carmakers have thrown their weight behind a $600m series B round for Horizon Robotics, whose shareholders already include Intel.

Microsoft’s M12 unit has participated in a $25m funding round for RapidAPI, with existing investor Andreessen Horowitz also returning.

Fraunhofer Venture has unveiled an accelerator for businesses based on its research in areas including artificial intelligence, digital medicine and industry 4.0.