Unternehmertum Venture Capital Partners has taken part in a $12m series A round for 3YourMind, an additive manufacturing spinout of Technical University of Berlin.

The industrial 3D printing platform developer has closed a round led by Siemens' Next47 fund that included Porsche and Microsoft Ventures.

The university has partnered Baotou Steel to spin out a steel waste recycling and carbon capturing system due to launch in China by mid-2018.

Peter Nagler is leaving Evonik Industries, where he was head of international innovation, for a position at Singapore's AStar.

3D mapping technology developer Paracosm, which had received $3.3m in a 2014 round featuring iRobot, has been acquired for an undisclosed sum.

Merck Group, Air Liquide, Samsung and Panasonic have contributed to a $10.5m round that took the metallisation technology developer's total funding to more than $46m.

As General Electric's chief innovation officer, Siegel will retain responsibility for its corporate venturing unit, GE Ventures.

Researchers at University of Chicago and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign will join forces at the Polsky Centre for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

The robotics systems developer will use the proceeds from the Alphabet and Siemens-backed round to fund product development.