Series A

Legend Capital led a $29.5m round for SciWind, which is developing treatments for metabolic and liver diseases, with backing from Kawin Technology.

Geothermal heating and cooling system provider Dandelion Energy received $16m in a Comcast Ventures-led round that included GV and Lennar.

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

Axovant Sciences has spun out its small molecule team into a startup called Arvelle, which will develop an anti-epileptic drug after raising more than $100m in external funding.

Novartis and Johnson & Johnson have contributed to a series A round for Vor Biopharma, an oncology drug developer co-founded by PureTech Health.

Samsung Next and GreatPoint Ventures supplied series A capital for emergency response software provider RapidDeploy, which recently moved from South Africa to the US.

Intel Capital has revealed investments in 12 US or China-based portfolio companies and a partnership with the NBA.

The unit is set to lead a $100m round for Horizon Robotics as part of $60m investment in data-focused companies, taking its total 2017 spending to almost $570m.

The corporate venturing unit invested $25m to lead early-stage rounds for Velostrata, Sedona Systems and Panoply.io totalling $38.5m.

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