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Slack's corporate venturing subsidiary, now under the Salesforce Ventures umbrella, is looking to lead more rounds after launching Fund III, which is twice the size of its predecessor.

Country Garden Venture Capital was among the investors in the Qualcomm-backed contract chip manufacturing service provider’s latest round, which took its total funding to $630m.

Deutsche Telekom-backed DTCP was among the investors that pushed the cybersecurity management platform developer’s valuation to $2.6bn.

Artificial intelligence technology developer Aibee raised cash from Xiaomi at a unicorn valuation while industrial technology provider Bluetron received $78.6m.

Managing director Dede Goldschmidt spelled out the unit's investment strategy along with its place in Samsung's corporate VC activities and the state of the post-pandemic market.

IISc Bengaluru-backed AI and Robotics and Technology Park is seeking approval from the Indian regulator to raise a $100m venture fund.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Radiopharmaceuticals developer Precirix completed an $88m series B round featuring Novo while corporate-backed kitchen technology provider Bear Robotics raised $81m.

Alphabet’s CapitalG unit returned to back Webflow’s latest round, which valued the website development software provider at $4bn.

UC Berkeley spinout SiFive has fetched a $2.5bn valuation in a series F round that pushed its overall financing to more than $350m.

UGent, VUB, UAntwerpen, UHasselt, ULiège, VITO and Imec are all among the partners of Qbic, which has raised $54m for its third fund.