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.

Industrial data repository Element has now received $40m in total, Evonik, Schneider Electric Ventures, Honeywell and ABB having backed its latest round.

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

Corporate venturing unit Lenovo Capital led a round that boosted smart forklift developer VisionNav’s funding total to more than $18m.

Smart forklift developer VisionNav has now collected more than $18m altogether to advance work from Chinese University of Hong Kong and University of Tokyo.

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

Seed investor Toyota AI Ventures returned to help the intelligent forklift developer close a series A round led by Innovation Endeavors.

A Xiaomi industrial fund was among the investors in series B and B-plus rounds for the smart manufacturing technology provider that totalled an eight-digit dollar amount.

The agricultural product and services provider added $100m to a FedEx-backed round that reportedly values it at $3.5bn.