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The Global Corporate Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the corporate innovation ecosystem.

Several China-based corporate venture investors backed a large round valuing lithium-ion battery Shanghai Shanshan material producer at $1.5bn. The deal highlights the importance of battery technologies not only for the emerging kind of mobility applications but for the process of energy transition as a whole.

The Global Corporate Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the corporate innovation ecosystem.

The Global Corporate Venturing deal net rounds up the smaller investments from across the corporate innovation ecosystem.

Q&A with Mike Lim, head of venture investments at Cisco Investments and corporate development for Cisco Collaboration

Cisco and ServiceNow were among the investors backing the data observability company’s largest round to date.

Web3 services provider Venly and genomic analysis technology provider Genome Insight each raised $23m while Rui Ye Lian helped Cedarlake Capital close a $189m fund.

GV was among the investors that provided over $110m for data authorisation software startup Veza as it emerged from stealth.

Migdal and Menora Mivtachim helped renewable energy infrastructure developer Fu-Gen with fresh funding which will help expand its operations in the UK and Finland. This is a deal from the renewable energy space, which continues to see much momentum in the context of energy transition.

Content personalisation technology provider Movable Ink and carbon-negative concrete developer Brimstone each raised $55m, with Intel and Amazon respectively among the investors.

Capital One Ventures, Snowflake Ventures, Verizon Ventures and Wipro Ventures were all named as participants in a round for the cloud security software provider sized above $1bn.