Industrial

Tsinghua-backed Rokae is working on lightweight robots with a wide range of applications and has now raised $43.5m altogether.

Suzhou HYC Technology participated in a $15.9m round for the smart manufacturing technology provider, which counts CAS Star as an early backer.

Italian tech transfer fund Eureka has attracted an initial $44.9m from LPs including Umbra Group and Saes Group to invest in engineering and materials spinouts.

Meituan Dianping followed a $15m investment in the delivery robotics technology developer by participating in its $14.5m series B-plus round.

Suzhou HYC Technology participated in a $15.9m round for the smart manufacturing technology provider, which counts Guolian Group and SBI as early backers.

Royal Circuit Solutions and Advanced Assembly have exited PCB design technology provider InspectAR, which has been bought by Cadence Design Systems.

The Google-backed spacecraft provider celebrated its latest launch with $1.9bn from unnamed investors at a reported $46bn valuation.

The consumer electronics producer will provide 40% of the capital for a fund partnership with the city of Yancheng sized at up to $1.45bn.

Mitsubishi UFJ Lease & Finance and Fuyo General Lease are among the limited partners for the unit's third fund, following its opening of an office in Japan.

Amid the covid-19 pandemic, interest in life sciences is now perhaps at its highest. This is true in corporate venture capital and three of the multimillion-dollar stories we reported in mid-August corroborate this.

The composite manufcturing technology provider, which counts Asahi Glass and Sumitomo as investors, has now raised $60m altogether.