The biochemical producer has partnered with renewable products maker Amyris since 2011.

Savioke, which is developing robotics technology for the service industry, is reportedly Google's eighth robotics investment in the past 12 months.

Washington spins out underwater telerobotics firm BlueHaptics.

The Spanish-Indian partnership is in talks with two Japan-based firms over a tripartite venture that would seek acquisitions and ventures in Southeast Asia.

Altia, an Intel-backed developer of panoramic camera technology for video and web collaboration, has now raised $17.2m in total.

The ultracapacitor developer, which has prior received funding from corporate-backed units Energy Technology Ventures and Aster Capital, has raised $21m in its latest round.

Knightcope has raised $1m seed funding from NTT DOCOMO Ventures and unnamed angel investors.

Mascarenas, who was at Intel Capital for 15 years, will supervise strategic investments at Toshiba Americas.

MGI Digital Graphic Technology has reached an agreement whereby Konica Minolta will acquire a 10% stake in MGI through a reserved capital increase.