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Email contact management tool Evercontact will also be the first startup to join the insurance group's AXA Factory accelerator.

Cisco and Liberty Global returned to back a late-stage round for Celeno Communications, which provides chipsets for wifi routers and set top boxes.

Pest management software startup Strider has secured series B funding that will help it expand from Brazil into the US.

Corporate venturing unit Point B Capital returned for the series A1 round, closed by the computing services provider 18 months after its $3.9m series A.

Vision processing chipmaker Movidius, which had raised more than $86m from investors including Robert Bosch and Sunny Optical, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum.

Cloud-connected robot developer Rapyuta has secured $10m in a series A round led by existing investor SBI Holdings.

The chipmaker's corporate venturing arm, Applied Ventures, is putting together a team in Singapore to increase its activities in Asia.

The insurer's AXA Strategic Ventures unit has exited email contacts tool developer EverContact through an acquisition by One More Company, in which it has also invested.

Home energy use detection company Sense has raised $14m in a round co-led by corporate venturing unit Shell Technology Ventures and Energy Impact Partners.

The Advance Publications-backed online brokerage has forged a place in a well-packed market and a billion-dollar valuation, showing there is still room for startups in the sector.