Industrial

Chief executive Tomoko Inoue describes her unit’s core interests and how it interacts with entrepreneurs.

Based on discoveries from MIT scientists, Agrivida has now raised more than $67m in total and will soon launch its flagship plant-based enzyme product.

UTokyo IPC, Keio Innovation Initiative and Innovations and Future Creation have contributed to a $79.7m series A that increased the Tokyo spinout's total funding to about $100m.

Shimizu, Mori Trust and Fuyo General Lease have contributed to a $79.7m series A round that increased the Japan-based small SAR satellite developer’s total funding to about $100m.

Since the beginning of 2018, a fifth of all corporate investors whose deals we track appear to be newcomers.

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

Cash Capital joined a unit of Red Star Macalline to back Mingdu Intelligent, which provides drug manufacturing services mainly related to data management and quality control.

O'Reilly AlphaTech, Redwood Technologies and SoftBank Capital helped the robotic logistics technology provider take its overall funding past the $90m mark.

Cambridge-founded touchscreen sensor manufacturer CTT has added $10m from investors including chemicals firm Kureha to its coffers.

Main Sequence Ventures contributed to a $3.2m round that brought predictive crop management technology developer FluroSat's funding total to $8.6m.

While slightly less than the 16 generated by UC Davis past year, the university remains pleased with the performance of internal tech transfer operations.