Industrial

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Batton, ExaWizards and Lightblue Technology are all joining the incubator and accelerator jointly run by Toho Gas and Persol’s Eiicon subsidiary.

Four of the incubator’s portfolio companies will pitch to investors at the GCV Digital Forum 3.0 following the success of similar competitions at our previous events.

Corning and SoftBank-backed dynamic glass producer View's previously announced reverse merger will be boosted by $200m from Singapore's sovereign wealth fund.

TDK Ventures has exited the laser light source technology producer a year after an investment of undisclosed size.

ADM Ventures, GV and Barclays helped the microbe-based protein developer close a round that will support research and development.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

BHP Ventures is co-leading the steel manufacturing technology developer's series B round, which has a $60m target for its close.

Business-to-business (B2B) e-commerce marketplace Udaan extended its series D round with a $280m tranche, featuring Tencent. The company is one of the comparatively few B2B e-commerce deals we have reported, despite the relative size and importance of the B2B in it.

UC-backed Congruent Ventures has contributed to a $55m round that will support the recycling robot maker's expansion plans.

GV and Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners contributed to a $55m round that will support the recycling robot maker's expansion plans.