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Shell is set to exit the energy storage platform developer in an acquisition by Q Cells, which is already utilising its technology.

Mixi Entertainment Fund has been armed with more than $28m and will be helped by Studio Entre in identifying portfolio companies.

Human resources provider DIP’s Gakucelerator has chosen four student-run startups for its latest batch and will provide up to $940,000 between them.

Cookpy, Hustar, Sutelura and Wilico have graduated from the YJ Capital and East Ventures-run accelerator’s sixth and seventh cohorts.

Salesforce Ventures and existing backer M12 contributed to a $13.5m round that took the government feedback data provider's total funding to more than $21m.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

The Müller Medien-backed telehealth diagnostics system developer raised $10.3m in a round co-led by Heal Capital and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

True Digital Group supplied a nine-digit renminbi amount for the Baidu-backed smart retail system developer that will fund international growth.

Animoca Brands, Samsung Next and Coinbase Ventures helped the blockchain game developer hike its overall funding to $52m.

Cyberdyne's CEJ Capital unit chipped into a round for the flu diagnostics device developer that hiked its overall funding to $27.5m.

A consortium of 15 startups were chosen to take part in the first edition of the internet technology group’s regional accelerator scheme, which will run until November this year.