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

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.

Denso and its NSitexe subsidiary co-led Quadric's series A round and will use the company's chips in its autonomous driving technology.

Building works analytics software developer Reconstruct spun out of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2016 and has now raised $10.1m of capital altogether.

Cargill Protein, Strauss Group and M-Industry all contributed to a series A round for cell-based meat developer Aleph, based on research at Technion– Israel Institute of Technology.

Cargill Protein, Strauss Group and M-Industry all contributed to a series A round for cell-based meat developer Aleph that will support product development.

Advance Venture Partners has returned to led another round for children’s activity marketplace and education software tool publisher Sawyer, increasing its funding to almost $20m.

CU Boulder battery tech spinout Solid Power and Ford will collaborate on delivering a solid-state cell for electric vehicles using the spinout's production facility.

Satt Aquitaine-founded TreeFrog has now raised $11.1m in equity and grant funding, having secured follow-on contributions from investors including the tech transfer office.

The series A, led by corporate venturing unit GV, may not have been last week’s largest deal, but Verve’s tie-up with fellow Harvard spinout Beam Therapeutics tells an intriguing story.