The General Electric-backed visual collaboration technology producer took its overall funding to more than $100m in a round that will support product development.

Oblong Industries, a US-headquartered, gesture-based user interface technology developer backed by conglomerate General Electric, secured $65m in funding yesterday from investors including Utimco, the investment arm of University of Texas System.

Industry Ventures, Greenspring Associates, Morgan Stanley and Foundry Group also contributed capital to the round.

Founded in 2006, Oblong Industries is developing Mezzanine, an immersive visual collaboration tool. The company’s technology is based on work undertaken by John Underkoffler, a computer scientist at MIT Media Lab, part of Massachusetts…