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

Intel Capital and Coinbase Ventures both chipped in as the blockchain technology developer raised its second round in less than a year.

Data analytics software provider Quid has secured $37.5m in a round led by Relx subsidiary REV Ventures that included Lixil and Salesforce Ventures.

The Recruit-backed conversational AI technology provider took its overall funding to $87m in a round that will support product development and sales and marketing.

The Japan-based insurer will partner TransLink Capital for sub-$5m investments and participate in larger deals itself, branching into areas like blockchain, IoT and healthtech.

The lidar sensor provider, whose existing backers include Samsung, Sensata Technologies and Delphi Automotive, has raised an undisclosed sum at a $2bn valuation.

Virtualisation technology provider Scale Computing has reached the $21.2m Lenovo-led first close of a round expected to close at $34.8m.

Stanford-StartX Fund has exited business intelligence software provider DataFox in an acquisition of undisclosed size by Oracle.

The cybersecurity services provider almost doubled its overall funding to more than $90m in its second Sonae IM-backed round in the space of a year.

The mobile app testing and optimisation platform developer has secured $20m in a round featuring GV and Telstra Ventures that reportedly valued it at $500m.

Daimler Financial Services has committed $7m to a series B round for intelligent avatar technology developer Soul Machines that has a $20m target.