Rostock-founded 3D printer maker Aim3D has secured money from investors including Brose ahead of the launch of its first product in spring 2019.

Synthorx, spun out of Scripps Research Institute, is targeting $100m in a proposed offering half a year after it raised $63m in a series C round backed by Osage University Partners.

After three years as head of India for Alphabet unit CapitalG, Kaushik Anand has left to join a venture capital firm recently founded by former Sequoia executives.

The biopharmaceutical spinout of University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna is issuing 400,000 shares in an initial public offering that is set to fetch between $34m and $41m.

Frontier IP sold $3.2m through a placement to new and existing backers as it announced its portfolio value had risen 34% year-on-year.

Utec-backed Chiba spinout Autonomous Control Systems Laboratory has filed for an initial public offering on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and plans to list on December 21.

Real Estate Technology Ventures has achieved a final close of $108m for a first fund backed by Aimco, Boardwalk, Essex, MidAmerica and UDR, and made a follow-on investment in SmartRent.

The seed funding will support CMU spinout RoadBotics’ automated road inspection platform already used by 78 clients in the US and Australia.

Dundee spinout Kinetic Discovery has been picked up by its peer Exscientia in a deal consolidating the equity of Frontier IP, which held stakes in both drug discovery companies.

Legrand has acquired its portfolio company Netatmo for an undisclosed amount, three years after the corporate led the smart home device maker's $32m series B round.