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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.

Generation Investment Management has joined a series B round for DeepMap that is at least $60m in size and which already includes Nvidia and Robert Bosch.

After four years leading Driscoll's agtech corporate venturing investments, Nolan Paul will now oversee Yamaha Motor Ventures' agricultural robotics and data activities.

The electric vehicle rental service followed a $47m round in March with a $43.2m series B1 round that was led by Bojiang Capital and backed by Itochu.

Volvo's financial services subsidiary has launched an accelerator with L Marks dubbed iLabX in order to access technology from startups.

GV has exited autonomous driving software developer Blue Vision in an acquisition by Lyft that was reportedly sized at $72m.

Ride hailing platform Grab raised the money from the travel and accommodation booking service through a partnership deal that will allow them to offer each other's services.

The lidar technology startup has secured funding in a series A round co-led by Nio's corporate venturing arm and Fidelity's Eight Roads Ventures and F-Prime Capital units.

Baidu is in talks to provide half the funding in the prospective round while another of the EV producer's existing investors, Tencent, could also take part.

Brazil-based fintech companies have been on the news in recent times, showing the potential of the South American country’s ecosystem.

Fuel retailer Parkland contributed to a round that lifted JF Shea-backed on-demand fuel supplier Filld’s total funding to $31m altogether.