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

Sustainable fabric technology developer Natural Fiber Welding secured $13m in a round led by strategic partner Ralph Lauren.

Leaps by Bayer and Temasek have partnered to form a seed development startup that is focusing on the vertical farming market.

SAIC Capital has scored an exit less than two years after it invested in the now publicly-listed intelligent manufacturing technology provider.

Echo Capital has invested $14.4m in the Foxconn-backed industrial component marketplace to make up the provision for its latest round.

China Academy of Sciences-backed Yungongchang sells industrial equipment to clients including Alibaba and Airbnb.

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

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

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

Fujita, Industrial Growth Platform and SBI were among the investors in the automation technology developer, a spinout of University of Tokyo.