Luxembourg car insurance telematics spinout Motion-S has secured the backing of automobile and cycle trade body Febiac as it prepares to expand into other mobility segments.

VTC Innovation Fund is among the investors in agricultural management software developer Growers’ latest round.

UC Berkeley cybersecurity spinout Corelight has added General Catalyst to earlier investors including Accel Partners to bring its total funding to $34.2m.

3D finishing technology developer DyeMansion has been backed by UVC Partners, AM Ventures and BtoV Partners.

Ten businesses will receive $52,000 in grant funding for participating in a Francis Crick-operated accelerator for data science-powered biomedical interfaces.

AutoGrid, the distributed energy management platform backed by Stanford, will use the capital from the Eon, CLP, Innogy, Total, Ørsted and Tenaska-backed round to boost hiring.

University of Melbourne and Lockheed Martin have contributed to an additional $94.8m tranche for the Csiro Innovation Fund, bringing its total to $167m.

Small satellite propulsion technology developer Exotrail has been backed by Satt Paris-Saclay as it prepares for a 2019-2020 market launch.

Elevian will commercialise research from Harvard and Stanford indicating young blood cells could be used to restore tissues in older patients.