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The creative studio and 01Booster’s four-month joint venture will help grow the entrepreneurial ecosystem in the Japanese city of Fukushima and environs.

Ather Energy has added $11.2m from existing shareholder Hero MotoCorp to its series C round to bring its total to $62.2m.

The online home insurer raised a series E round backed by a host of corporate venture investors.

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

CMA CGM and Tamer Group participated in a round that will support the e-commerce delivery service’s expansion to Saudi Arabia.

Exor Seeds co-led a $26.7m round for Cowboy that will drive the electric bicycle maker's European expansion efforts.

Huntington Ingalls Industries, Toyota AI Ventures and Brunswick’s TechNexus Venture Collaborative fund all took part in the autonomous marine vessel system developer's latest round.

The driver’s education provider has put together a fund of undisclosed size dubbed Minami Incubate to back education, mobility and revitalisation technology startups.

The Volkswagen and Access Industries-backed ride hailing platform closed $100m in equity, debt and bond financing at a flat $1.5bn valuation.

SK China has invested tens of millions of dollars in the automatic braking software provider, which will use the cash to enhance its technology and expand its market share.

The smart electric carmaker, which counts Alibaba, Xiaomi and Foxconn as investors, is raising roughly $500m in a series C-plus round.