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Geographic growth and the integration of the corporate-backed healthcare venture firm's newest partner is set to precede a busy year, Rob Coppedge and Hayley Hovious told Global Venturing.

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

Mike Locker will oversee the home improvement product retailer’s new investment arm.

The drug wholesaler’s CVC fund will have up to $39.3m in capital, and will be led by Suzuken's head of corporate strategy, Yuichi Yamamoto.

The energy storage provider received a boost to its growth plans with a new investment from AMF.

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.

Meituan co-led the unmanned forklift producer’s series C-plus round, which came seven months after a first close that featured ByteDance and Lenovo.

Adevinta Ventures and Uniqa Ventures were among the investors in the second-hand car trading platform’s latest round, which included debt supplied by unnamed institutions.

The Takeda Vaccines spinoff floated in an upsized offering that granted its former parent $100m in shares.

Alphabet, Sanofi and Syncona were among the investors helping the drug developer advance toward clinical trials.

The small business fintech platform received backing from PayPal to expand across Latin America.