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Prologis Ventures’ investment in the round has helped the warehouse rental service provider push its overall funding to more than $143m.

The newly formed Pinnacle Ventures is equipped with $50m of capital and will concentrate on investments in reliability technology.

Daimler will retain 10% of 1886Ventures, which has been formed out of its 1886Labs unit, and will be a client of Deloitte's Digital Ventures team.

Ilya Gelfenbeyn has formed a new venture capital firm having left his role as head of corporate venturing vehicle Google Assistant Investments.

Julie Kainz has departed from Salesforce Ventures and joined venture capital firm Dawn Capital as a vice-president.

Kai Engelhardt, a GCV Powerlist award winner, said he had decided to return to ventures after two years as head of digitalisation at Mahle.

Everyday Network has exited apartment manager BestBond in an acquisition of undisclosed size by SoftBank-backed Ziroom.

Roblox has bought the intellectual property assets of the Gresham Lehrman Group-backed recruitment test developer as it prepares to go public.

Cancer and graft-versus-host disease therapy developer MaaT has raised a second tranche to hike the Biocodex-backed round to $30.4m.

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

SoftBank held a 7% stake in the enterprise messaging tool developer when it listed 18 months ago at a $13.1bn valuation, its backers also including GV and Comcast Ventures.