Lidar technology developer Blickfeld has secured a $5.7m extension from investors including Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners to bring its seed round to $10m.

Germany-based lidar technology developer Blickfeld secured a $5.7m seed extension on Tuesday from investors including lighting product maker Osram and retail group Tengelmann to bring the round’s total to $10m.

Unternehmertum Venture Capital (UVC) Partners, a venture capital firm affiliated with Unternehmertum, the tech transfer office of Technical University of Munich, also backed the round, as did public-private partnership High-Tech Gründerfonds.

Osram and Tengelmann backed the round through their respective corporate venturing units, Fluxunit Osram Ventures and Tengelmann Ventures. The…