Solidia Technologies, Kelun Biotech and Doer Biologics all raised more than $70m while Sony added cash to a round valuing Discord at $7bn.

Funding

US-based sustainable construction materials producer Solidia Technologies has completed a $78m funding round featuring oil and gas supplier BP and building materials provider LafargeHolcim as well as BASF Venture Capital, Total Carbon Neutrality Ventures and Aliad, on behalf of chemical producer BASF, petroleum supplier Total and industrial gases producer Air Liquide. The round was co-led by Imperative Ventures and Zero Carbon Partners and included Kleiner Perkins, Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Prelude Ventures, Piva Capital, OGCI…

Robert Lavine

Robert Lavine is special features editor for Global Venturing.