With the growing focus on food sustainability, University of California (UC) Santa Barbara-founded food preservative developer Apeel Science is a particularly apt selection for the Technology of the Year award.

Four innovative companies were introduced by their corporate backers to detail how they are looking to impact the transport and mobility sectors.

Members of science incubator Unit DX have obtained $25.5m of capital altogether since launch in 2017, with many of its residents hailing from University of Bristol.

Akron-founded resilient titanium production outfit Precision Surface Science is sounding out potential angel investors as it looks to target industries including automotive, transport and medical devices.

Farm e-commerce company On the Slope has won support from Kyoto University’s KU-iCap, with the funding allocated for expansion in several Asian countries.

Prefabricated housing developer Connect Homes now has corporate backing in the form of Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, which invested in its $10.8m series A.

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

Power grid management technology developer Synaptec spun out of University of Strathclyde in 2014 and has now won support from the corporate-backed Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.

Lockheed Martin was among the participants in the automation technology provider's latest round, which was led by Point72 Ventures.

Building works analytics software developer Reconstruct spun out of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 and has now raised $10.1m of capital altogether.