Industrial analytics spinout Mondas is targeting energy applications and has already started testing at a local solar energy network.

University College London hopes to generate as much as $126m for its second Technology Fund, with British Business Bank thought to be among potential limited partners.

UTokyo Innovation Platform has backed a $22.8m investment round for Axelspace that will fund the launch of the Tokyo spinout's latest satellite.

Mitsui and Dai-ichi Life have backed a $22.9m investment round led by 31Ventures Global Innovation Fund that will fund the launch of Axelspace's latest satellite.

KDDI, Airbus, Global Logistic Properties, JTB and Maeda Industry all chipped in as the experiential robotics startup raised an undisclosed amount.

Baidu has provided Robot++ with pre-series A funding following an angel round backed by a Tsinghua incubator in April 2018.

Tokyo's experiential robot developer Telexistence has won funding from a investors including the university's Innovation Platform and a host of corporates.

Next Offset Solutions will commercialise a 3D printing technology for energetic materials including rocket fuels and pyrotechnics.

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

Tsinghua’s Tus-Holdings is weighing up a venture capital fund as part of a $584m push into Japan’s artificial intelligence, fintech and robotics sectors.