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Honda, Panasonic and Omron are among the limited partners of NordicNinja VC’s inaugural fund, which will focus on deep tech and help northern European startups expand into Asia.

K1 Investment Management has put $150m into Motorola Solutions-backed GoCanvas and reportedly acquired a majority stake in the process.

Qualcomm-backed video conferencing software developer Zoom is aiming to go public in April and has filed confidentially with the US regulator.

Accenture has formed a partnership with Splice Machine and invested in a $16m round that increased the predictive analytics software developer's overall funding to $58m.

Palo Alto Networks agreed to buy cybersecurity orchestration platform Demisto for a mixture of cash and stock, highlighting the potential of the vibrant cybersecurity space

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

Credit Suisse has added an extra $70m to its Entrepreneur Capital fund and invested an undisclosed amount in drone developer Perspective Robotics.

The network management software producer has increased its overall funding to more than $110m in a series D round led by GV with backing from Salesforce Ventures.

University of Michigan will supply an initial $2.75m in funding to MemryX, Ripple Science, GreenMark Biomedical, and Give and Take, and could invest as much as $20m altogether.

Telstra Ventures has led a $25m growth round for the Dell-backed cloud file storage provider, which has now raised $145m altogether.

The payment protection software provider received $15m in a round co-led by Microsoft's M12 unit and venture firm Viola Ventures.