Industrial

Corporate investors including Suez, Aptar, Sky Ocean Ventures, P&G and Nestlé have backed TerraCycle, the operator of consumer product recycling service Loop.

European Circular Bioeconomy Fund, which has hired Solvay Ventures alumnus Stéphane Roussel as a venture partner made a first close in October.

National Grid Partners and Koch Disruptive Technologies co-led the industrial cybersecurity product developer's series C round, taking its total funding to $158m.

Science Creates will combine a $20m fund with wet-lab incubation to foster the west of England deep tech ecosystem in partnership with University of Bristol.

ETH Zurich-founded HeiQ chose the London Stock Exchange for its listing having posted a $10.9m operating profit for the first half of the year.

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

ETH Zurich industrial robotics spinout Anybotics has collected series A capital from investors led by Swisscom Ventures.

Swisscom Ventures' Digital Transformation Fund led a $22.5m round for the industrial robot developer, a spinout of ETH Zurich.

Cloud-based enterprise software producer Salesforce agreed to acquire Slack, the US-based publicly listed communication platform which previously counted telecoms firm SoftBank, internet conglomerate Alphabet and media group Comcast among its backers.

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

Robert Bosch Venture Capital and Conductive Ventures were among the investors in a round that will help the construction data technology developer enhance its product.