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Discussion at Kyushu University, Japan, identifies that Fukuoka, under its youthful mayor Soichiro Takashima (he was elected in 2010 aged 36), is one region continuing to explore its options to be a growth centre.

All the VC deals (with named investors) on Friday had effectively corporate or government venture capital angles, including sole rounds by CVCs.

Data centre management technology company Mesosphere took its total funding to $126m with a $73.5m series C round featuring the corporates as new investors.

The virtual reality technology startup will use the capital raised through the oversubscribed series A round to grow its development and engineering teams.

Qualcomm joined existing backers including Intel, Cisco and SanDisk for a series C round that pushed the data centre software provider's total funding past $70m.

Domo, backed by Salesforce and WPP, revealed the new funding at the same time as a $50m fund that will invest in technology relevant to its business data platform.

GE Ventures joined existing investor O'Reilly AlphaTech for a round that the manufacturing analytics company will spend on sales, marketing and product development.

HTGF-backed spinout Symtavision, a developer of software technology for the automotive sector, has been acquired by Luxoft for an undisclosed amount.

Salesforce.com and law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati returned for a round that boosted the enterprise resource planning company's overall funding to more than $55m.