Prefabricated housing developer Connect Homes now has corporate backing in the form of Wells Fargo Strategic Capital, which invested in its $10.8m series A.

Space Audit Systems has been founded on University of Wolverhampton intellectual property to market software that formalises the process of auditing space usage.

Meditation device manufacturer Core has attracted $4m from seed investors including Stanford-StartX Fund as it ramps up towards the full release of its product.

Modvion was founded with support from Chalmers Ventures and will collaborate with Chalmers University of Technology to construct a prototype wind electricity tower made from laminated timber near Gothenburg.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

The real estate database operator has now raised $28m altogether, adding $12m in a round that included strategic investor RealPage.

The CHJ Automotive-backed company plans to put the $14.5m into accelerating the development of its driverless delivery vans.

ICL medical device developer GripAble has added funding from Triple Point Impact EIS Investment Fund to $198,000 of equity secured from investors including Oxford Technology Management in 2017.

Power grid management technology developer Synaptec spun out of University of Strathclyde in 2014 and has now won support from the corporate-backed Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.

SetSquared Bath-affiliate Verv has secured backing from investors including Centrica as it continues the roll-out of its smart energy hub and peer-to-peer trading platform for renewable electricity.