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

Erin Keller, formerly a senior associate at Yamaha Motor Ventures & Laboratory Silicon Valley, has joined Toyota AI Ventures in a similar role.

Bordrin Motor has collected $362m in funding from a group of investors led by Sinochem International, while Sumitomo and Positec also participated.

National Electric Vehicle Sweden has acquired the in-wheel electric motor producer, enabling Zhejiang VIE Science & Technology and Tianjin THSG Corporation to exit.

India-based payment tech company PhonePe is looking to raised $1bn at $7bn-$8bn valuation from various investors, including Tencent.

Stanford-StartX Fund-backed Firefly has raised $30m from investors including GV, with the capital earmarked for expansion in regional markets including New York City.

The autonomous vehicle camera maker received $17m in an Intel Capital-led round that will support the formation of alliances with automotive partners.

The carmaker, already a shareholder in Uber and Grab, is considering an investment of about $550m in the Chinese ride hailing app developer.

In February and March 2019, we conducted a small pilot survey (n=31) of founders of businesses that have received corporate funding, which were referred to the survey by their corporate backers. We called it the “GCV Founders Survey” and it gave us some interesting insights.

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

Data presented by Martin Haemmig and GCV Analytics provided insight into the substantial growth in corporate venturing along with some of the major trends.