Tomoko Inoue, formerly senior manager at MedVenture Partners, joined corporate venturing unit Omron Ventures as chief executive earlier this year.

Swati Dasgupta, a director at Siemens unit Next47, has taken the same role at another corporate investment arm, National Grid Ventures.

Allied Minds has returned to back satellite intelligence gathering technology company HawkEye 360 after having taken part in an $11m round in 2016.

Susana Quintana-Plaza, formerly a partner at Siemens' Next47 vehicle after seven years at Eon, has left the unit.

The motion control technology producer has set up an $85m corporate venturing unit, Nabtesco Technology Ventures, with Emerald Technology Ventures.

The metal printing technology provider has secured $12.9m in a round backed by Lincoln Electric and Boeing HorizonX Ventures.

Industrial cybersecurity software provider iS5 Communications has received $18.8m in a round backed by Phoenix Contact Innovation Ventures.

Autodesk-backed 3D printing technology developer Formlabs took its total funding to $100m with a New Enterprise Associates investment that valued it at more than $1bn.

LBNL scientific analysis spinout Newomics has been backed by Berkeley Catalyst Fund to develop a testing platform initially targeting medical and biotech applications.