Safran Corporate Ventures took part in a round that took microprocessor provider Kalray's overall funding to $65m.

France-based microprocessor producer Kalray closed a $26m round yesterday featuring Safran Corporate Ventures, the early-stage investment vehicle for aerospace and defence equipment provider Safran.

The round included CEA Investissement, the venture capital arm of state-funded research agency Commissariat à l’Energie Atomique (CEA), as well as investment fund Pengpai, private equity firm Ace Management, VC firm Eurekap, Héléa Financière and Inocap Gestion.

Kalray was spun out of CEA in 2008 and develops manycore microprocessors that can deliver higher performance while consuming…