The chemicals and materials conglomerate’s regional vehicle will back IoT and automotive startups in China, having already committed to a local growth fund.

Today's deal net contains news from Boston Metal, Evologic Therapeutics, Lilz, GaitQ, Hemerion Therapeutics and Rebrain.

Today's deal net contains news from Nexthink, Metalenz, Grapheal, CellulaRevolution and Astrata.

Advantech and Momenta Ventures have teamed for a fund set to invest $50m across the artificial intelligence and industrial internet-of-things sectors.

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

The aerial data technology developer’s latest round was co-led by returning investor Energize Ventures and brought its total funding to $142m.

Fraunhofer Society has participated in a series B round for its solar wafer technology spinout, which also attracted Saudi Aramco.

If you can outsource manufacturing a part from a factory to the customer and reduce logistics and inventory costs it sounds appealing. So it is little surprise a host of industrial groups have explored additive manufacturing – also known as 3D printing.

Leaps by Bayer backed the gene-editing technology provider’s latest round, almost three years after it merged with existing Pairwise investor Monsanto Growth Ventures.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.