Sirrus will use a $6.5m General Motors-backed equity round, together with $5m of debt financing, to fund the commercialisation of its monomer technology.

The sterility monitoring technology company has raised $25m in funding from investors including Hepalink, and will use the money to support global expansion.

The France-based company will invest the capital in aerospace, defence and security technology startups over a three-year period.

Andrew Kodis, the managing director of Sabic's corporate venturing unit, is leaving the company to take the reins as chief executive of Black Diamond Structures.

Osage University Partners, a venture capital firm that exclusively invests in university startups, has backed fluid data analytics company Seismos in its $4m series A round.

Western Australia University transfers the ownership of its LumiMEMS optical detection and cantilever sensing technology patent to Panorama Synergy, the company it had licensed the technology to.

Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures led the construction technology provider's series D round, which it will use to enter new markets.

Nanotube manufacturer Cnano Technology, a Tsinghua spin-out, has secured $15m for a series B round backed by returning investor IDG Capital Partners.

Nanotube manufacturer Cnano Technology has secured $15m for a series B round backed by returning investor IDG Capital Partners.