The seven-digit investment by BE Beteiligungen Fonds will help Salzburg e-commerce search spinout Findologic accelerate its international expansion and introduce new product features.

EPFL-founded exhaust filtering system spinout Daphne Technology has been backed by investors including oil producer Saudi Aramco.

Plant sciences startups Heliponix and Karyosoft each secured $50,000 investments after winning the fifth cohort of Purdue’s Ag-celerator competition.

Partly based on Polytechnic University of Valencia research, Kerionics hopes to commercialise a ceramic membrane-based system for producing industrial quantities of oxygen from waste gases.

Chalmers Ventures has invested more funding in human resources app developer Winningtemp, which is preparing its employee wellbeing software for international expansion.

Nanomaterials provider Nanogap, a spinout of University of Santiago de Compostela, received $2.1m from Repsol's Corporate Venture vehicle.

Toronto’s AmacaThera is preparing clinical trials of a drug delivery hydrogel that could diminish the need for prescription opioid painkillers after surgery.

Nanomaterials provider Nanogap, a spinout of University of Santiago de Compostela, received $2.1m from Repsol's Corporate Venture vehicle.

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

University of Bristol Enterprise Fund has returned with more cash for irrigation system developer Lettus Grow, founded by Bristol graduates and students.