Rob Lavine, News editor for Global Corporate Venturing, reviews the trends in venturing from 2018

Adelaide's ThincLab and University of New England's SRI AgTech incubators will receive $357,000 and $229,000 of government funding respectively.

An undisclosed industrial company is reportedly set to lead a series E round for the 3D metal printer producer, which is backed by Ford, GV, Stratasys, Saudi Aramco, GE, Techtronic and Lowe's.

The chemicals manufacturer has expanded its portfolio of polymer materials for the 3D printing market by buying portfolio company Structured Polymers.

EPFL-founded exhaust filtering system spinout Daphne Technology has been backed by investors including oil producer Saudi Aramco.

Plant sciences startups Heliponix and Karyosoft each secured $50,000 investments after winning the fifth cohort of Purdue’s Ag-celerator competition.

Partly based on Polytechnic University of Valencia research, Kerionics hopes to commercialise a ceramic membrane-based system for producing industrial quantities of oxygen from waste gases.

Nanomaterials provider Nanogap, a spinout of University of Santiago de Compostela, received $2.1m from Repsol's Corporate Venture vehicle.

Nanomaterials provider Nanogap, a spinout of University of Santiago de Compostela, received $2.1m from Repsol's Corporate Venture vehicle.

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