Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, formed by Formula One team Williams Grand Prix Engineering and Foresight Group, plans to invest up to $2.5m in at least 10 companies.

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Joint development partner Panasonic joined investors including Daiwa and SBI for a round that will take the laundry folding robot through to the commercialisation stage.

Salesforce, PTC and General Electric's own GE Ventures unit exited the field service management software provider, which will be purchased by GE Digital after raising $205m.

Autonomous car and robotics technology producer ZMP plans to float in its home country of Japan having received equity funding from Intel and Komatsu.

The asteroid mining company, which is already backed by Bechtel, AGI and 3D Systems, has received $27.6m from the government of Luxembourg and SNCI.