FEI, Transvalor, KPN, Vilmorin & Cie, Vyv Group, Mgen and Clarins subsidiary Famille C were all among the contributors to the fund's $82.3m close.

Oxford Sciences Innovation has bid farewell to chairman Patrick Pichette, just a few months after also losing CEO Charles Conn.

Paris Saclay Seed Fund and all other existing backers returned for the series B round, which additionally attracted Tsinghua University’s TUS Holdings.

Cornes, 3M Ventures and Repsol Energy Ventures contributed to a round that increased the VTT-founded in-mold structural electronics provider's total funding to more than $59m.

Sources have told the Wall Street Journal the fund is set to raise less than half the $108bn in MOUs SoftBank received, with the corporate supplying most of that capital itself.

The deep tech-focused commercialisation vehicle currently has 10 portfolio companies having smashed its original $54.8m fundraising target.

Cornes, 3M Ventures and Repsol Energy Ventures contributed to a round that increased the in-mold structural electronics provider's total funding to more than $59m.

Biocodex returned for a $19.8m round that boosted microbiome drug developer MaaT Pharma's overall funding to more than $33m.

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