The second round of funding for the UK-based infrared technology company,
deal was led by Robert Bosch Venture Capital, a corporate venturing unit of industrial group Bosch.

News provider Financial Times (FT) said Fosun had approached sovereign wealth funds among others to be its partner as it hunts for deals in the consumer, financial services, green energy and healthcare sectors.

Robotics and three-dimension (3D) manufacturing recast the physical world.

New York Stock Exchange-listed materials science company DuPont backs materials company Nanocomp Technologies' series C round.

Cern is looking to make it easier for businesses and entrepreneurs to access intellectual property generated at the European organisation for nuclear research.

The Japanese corporate is joined by Battery Ventures, US Venture Partners and Index Ventures backing Redwood Systems, a US-based lighting company.

GlaxoSmithKline's corporate venturing unit backs the US-based women's reproductive health company, joining Merck Serono Ventures, Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers and TPG Biotech in the syndicate.

The BP, Dow Chemical and Dominion Power-backed US-based developer of energy storage systems raises another $10m.

The Malaysia-based university opens an innovation centre.

Japan-based conglomerate Marubeni Corp buys the agricultural and energy resources compan backed by industrial conglomerate Orascom Construction Industries.