40 North Ventures, Honeywell and Sumitomo Mitsui were among the strategic investors.

Fictiv, a US-based virtual manufacturing platform, has raised $35m in its series D round from 40 North Ventures, a related investment business of Standard Industries, a privately-held industrial company.

Other investors included Honeywell is a US-listed conglomerate in aerospace, building technologies, performance materials and technologies, and safety and productivity solutions, Japan-based Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation, venture capital firms Adit Ventures, M20 Accel and G2VP, and Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates.

Marianne Wu, managing director at 40 North Ventures and former president…

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James Mawson is founder and chief executive of Global Venturing.