The enterprise technology accelerator operator has amassed $51m for its debut fund, from limited partners including Vinci Energies, Crédit Agricole and BNP Paribas.

DTU-owned PreSeed Ventures joined Bose Ventures in occupational voice guidance technology developer Whispr’s round, which will help the startup double its headcount.

Mac Panther Materials will operate as a subsidiary of manufacturing machinery supplier Mac Panther on the back of a spinout agreement with Saarland University.

Converge is now affiliated to all 18 Scottish universities, offering a prize fund of $305,000 through four competition-orientated programs.

Toronto's Creative Destruction Lab accelerator network will open its first UK-based location through a partnership with University of Oxford after expanding into the US with NYU in 2018.

Goldwind, Legal & General and Equinor have all taken part in the $41m first close of the solar power technology provider's series D round, taking its total equity and debt financing to more than $118m.

Goldwind, Legal & General and Equinor have all taken part in a series D that achieved a $41m first close and boosted the Oxford spinout’s total equity and debt to more than $118m.

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

Based on UCL and Bristol research, Phasecraft is a member of a UK government-backed quantum collaboration driven by both universities together with the Google Quantum AI Lab.

Presidio Ventures has reinvested in HR software developer Hibob as part of a series A-plus round that increased its overall funding to $45m.