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The SoftBank Vision Fund I, the $100bn investment vehicle of telecoms conglomerate SoftBank, and VC firm Sequoia Capital China have committed an additional $200m to China-based automotive e-commerce platform Chehaoduo, bringing its series D round to $1.7bn

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

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

Grail has added $390m in series D funding to its coffers thanks to a consortium featuring Illumina, significantly shooting past its $250m target size.

Autotech Ventures has attracted more than $150m for its second fund from limited partners including Volvo, Lear, Bridgestone and Stoneridge as well as several other corporates.

Following regulatory approval, SoftBank has led a $125m series B round for the digital lender that was first announced earlier this year.

Tencent has returned for a series B round raised by the semiconductor technology developer, having also participated in a $43.4m funding round last year.

GV has invested in Ventus Therapeutics, an immunotherapy developer co-founded by faculty from multiple academic institutions.

GV has invested in Ventus Therapeutics, an immunotherapy developer co-founded by faculty from multiple academic institutions.

UC Berkeley-aligned generalised robotics software developer Covariant, which emerged from stealth in January, has now assembled at least $67m of funding.

UC Berkeley-aligned generalised robotics software developer Covariant previously collected funding from Samsung Q Fund while it still operated in stealth mode.