IT

Marcos Almeida has departed from IT services provider Stefanini after three years leading strategic investment and acquisition deals.

John Lonsdale will oversee a new enterprise services team at Edinburgh Innovations tasked with matters including oversight of a local scheme targeting the formation of 400 data-orientated startups.

Peter Tague, formerly Citi's co-head of global mergers and acquisitions, has entered the venture capital space, leading international offices for In-Q-Tel.

Intel Capital led a series B round for the artificial intelligence-based processor developer, bringing its overall funding to $120m.

Liberty Global and Shanda Group were among the investors that have backed Mojo Vision’s invisible computing platform with $50m of capital.

National Grid, Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories and Emerson collectively invested $1m in the industrial cybersecurity platform's series B round.

The number of flotations of companies that have previously received corporate backing has been growing over the past couple years. More interestingly, it has been companies from the life sciences sector that beat other sectors in going public.

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

Salesforce Ventures returned to reinvest in a Norwest Venture Partners-led round that boosted the product management platform's total funding to $28m.

RPA software provider Automation Anywhere received $300m from SoftBank Vision Fund at a reported $2.6bn post-money valuation, adding to $250m raised in July.

Dell Ventures, Citi Ventures and Capital One Ventures are all set to exit endpoint security software provider after Blackberry agreed an acquisition.