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Chengtun Mining Group took part in Hithium’s $278m series B round while HubSpot Ventures contributed to Jasper’s $125m series A.

With a growing number of unicorns and strong research universities, Europe is in a position to create several innovation superclusters.

Google was among the investors that helped lift Progcap’ series C round to $120m while Okta Ventures boosted Hycu’s $53m series B.

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Tencent took part in a $400m round for Skydance Media while CrowdStrike helped Vanta hike its series B to $150m.

China has a policy of superclusters to drive growth and is increasingly incorporating corporate venture capital initiatives into these clusters.

Rakuten-backed Base Food is set to list on TSE’s Growth Market in an IPO valuing it at $329m while Mitsui was part of a $400m round for Yellow Door Energy.

Consumer credit provider FinAccel secured $140m from investors including GMO Payment Gateway while Amgen helped brain disease drug developer Neumora raise $112m.

Salesforce, ANZ and Tencent helped Airwallex boost its series E round to $300m while Hermes-Epitek chipped into a $30m series A for Ochre Bio.

The value of corporate-backed deals slumped in the third quarter, but sectors like energy and telecoms bucked the trend as did a few geographies like Israel.

Such enormous losses help explain why Bytedance in January said it was dissolving its corporate venturing unit.