Industrial

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

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

Limited partners including Cisco Investments and Shell have helped McRock Fund II achieve a $60.9m close, putting it 80% of the way to its target.

Smart industrial glove producer ProGlove has received $40m from Summit Partners that comes after two rounds featuring corporate venturer Intel Capital.

Anglo American Platinum-backed investment fund AP Ventures has secured $30m from Compagnie Plastic Omnium for its AP Ventures Fund II fund.

SoftBank, Times Internet and Fosun-backed logistics services provider Delhivery has received $115m from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to take its total funding above $780m.

Optical component provider WaveOptics has added $13m to bring a series C round featuring Goertek and RBVC to $39m as it looks to ramp up production capacity.

Autodesk has led a $26.8m series C round for aPriori, which will use the money to accelerate the development of its product cost management platform.

Shubhang Shankar has been promoted to a managing director at Syngenta's corporate venturing unit, following the departures of Katrin Burt and Derek Norman.

AgFunder and Wilbur-Ellis subsidiary Cavallo Ventures both invested in farm management technology developer FieldIn to take its overall funding to about $16m.

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