Existing backer Cisco Investments came back to contribute to a $9.5m round for the industrial sensor developer, which also counts Mitsui as a shareholder.

The Washington State University spinout has raised nearly $7m so far for the round, which has a target size of $16m.

UMC subsidiary Fortune Venture Capital has teamed up with INCJ for a $7.1m secondary investment in flat-panel display technology developer CerebrEx.

The semiconductor manufacturing component maker secured $23.5m, with Samsung Ventures, JSR Corporation, Aliad, Applied Ventures and Intel Capital all investing.

The agricultural product developer has doubled its overall equity funding, closing a round led by corporate venturing unit Monsanto Growth Ventures.

Asahi Kasei-backed biomaterials producer Mirexus will use the funding, supplied by investors including Goddard Enterprises subsidiary GEL Tech, to support a new production facility.

Frontier IP has received a 20% stake in Molendotech, a new spinout of Plymouth University that has developed a way to test the purity of water.

Zhaogang has secured $73m in funding from investors including a Shougang-backed fund, countering reports last year that it was gearing up for an initial public offering.

The manufacturing services provider has now raised about $29m this year, after BMW i Ventures led a round that included existing investor GE Ventures.