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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.

Innovative region: Germany

The fourth annual Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation (GCVI) Summit in Monterey, California on Wednesday and Thursday, January 30-31 by reporters Kaloyan Andonov, Edison Fu and Thierry Heles

Sector focus: Services

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

Michigan’s endowment fund is to expand its contribution to Andreessen Horowitz’s cryptocurrency fund, which launched in last June.

Comcast Ventures has taken part in the JMI-led round, which increased the digital marketing platform's overall funding to more than $58m.

The neural interface-tracking technology developer has increased its overall funding to $67m following a GV-led funding round that included Amazon's Alexa Fund.