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GCV Analytics defines the financial services sector as encompassing payment technologies and cryptocurrencies, personal finance and wealth management, insurance, alternative lending, crowdfunding, client and risk analytics, firms and funds, social investing and others.

The automotive parts producer intends to invest $26.3m in robotics, semiconductor, advanced materials and car components technology in the next two years.

In this short piece, we provide a comparison of our GCV Analytics data with Pitchbook’s data up until the end of the third quarter of 2018.

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

Grab has added $50m from Kasikornbank to a round sized at $2.7bn, following a $250m investment by Hyundai and Kia earlier this week.

Global Corporate Venturing’s inaugural award for ‘Energy-tech Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Investment of the Year’ was announced on November 8th during the Venture Houston conference.

University of Minnesota is part of a list of limited partners that provided $150m for Brazil-based venture firm Monashees to close its eighth fund.

Bicycle sharing platform Hellobike has entered discussions with SoftBank for an investment as part of a $400m round that would value it at $2bn.

Mobility app developer Transit has raised $17.5m in a round led by Alliance Ventures that also featured Jaguar Land Rover's Inmotion Ventures unit.

The carmakers have supplied $250m in connection with an electric vehicle promotion deal, and the round already includes Toyota, Ping An, Microsoft and Citi Ventures.

GV general partner Joe Kraus, who joined the bike rental service's board when the unit led a $355m round in July, has agreed to become its COO.