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CAC, Bandai Namco and Sega all took part in the round as new investors, helping the WPP-backed emotion recognition software company boost its total funding to $34m.

Oxford spinout Zegami aims for a $10m funding round to commercialise its data discovery platform.

CAC, Bandai Namco and Sega all took part in the round as new investors, helping the WPP-backed emotion recognition software company boost its total funding to $34m.

The digital wallet developer has added its first corporate shareholder in the form of TransUnion, with which it has also entered a strategic partnership.

The Salesforce and Amazon-backed cloud communications company has filed for a $100m initial public offering, having been valued at $1.1bn as of July last year.

Stanford-backed Autogrid, an energy management software developer, increased its overall funding to more than $40m.

Victorious, which develops apps to help content creators build a fanbase, has added Dentsu to its list of investors that already features WME and Bertelsmann.

Lisa Lambert, a vice-president at Intel Capital until last week and #1 on GCV's January Rising Stars list, has taken a managing partner position at venture firm Westly Group.

Stefan Gabriel, formerly head of advanced materials and manufactured product group 3M's corporate venturing unit for six years, hosted a discussion on CVC data.

IP Group has invested in Consequential Robotics as the company is spun out of Sheffield University.

After several decades of peaks and troughs, corporate venturers feel they are climbing up the slope of enlightenment.