Industrial

Heat regulation material developer Carbice picked up capital from Toyota AI Ventures and Downing Ventures that will support recruitment.

The mass spectrometry system provider has filed to go public having already raised $70m from investors incuding Saudi Aramco and Schlumberger.

The wind turbine producer has followed investments in Northvolt and Sowitec with the establishment of its own corporate venture capital unit.

Satt Paris-Saclay, École Polytechnique and National Office for Aerospace Studies and Research have joined forces for an aerospace and defence accelerator.

The autonomous inspection robot's total funding now stands above $72m, after Koch Disruptive Technologies led its latest round.

Aderans, DCM Holdings, Dentsu, Hakuhodo, Nippon TV, Nihon Kolmar, Settsu Warehouse, Shima Seiki, Yakuodo and Yodobashi Camera all backed the limestone-based material maker’s $19.7m round.

Backed by Uniseed, TenasiTech has commercialised scratch-resistant plastic additives pioneered at University of Queensland’s Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.

Facebook, Google, Autodesk and Citi were among the participants in a round that will help modular housebuilder Factory_OS increase production.

UC Berkeley-founded emissions measurement provider Aclima has raised cash in a round that included Splunk, RBVC and Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund.

Marketing and imaging software producer Adobe agreed to acquire US-based work management software provider Workfront in a $1.5bn deal, giving quantitative trading firm Susquehanna International Group (SIG) an exit.

Novo and AgFunder returned for a series B round disclosed as the leather substitute producer opens a new manufacturing facility.