Industrial

Ahren Innovation Capital has been confirmed as an investor in a round that brought University of Bristol-linked machine intelligence technology developer Graphcore’s total to $310m.

Mac Panther Materials will operate as a subsidiary of manufacturing machinery supplier Mac Panther on the back of a spinout agreement with Saarland University.

The satellite-based internet network developer has now raised $3.4bn in total, with existing investors SoftBank, Grupo Salinas and Qualcomm all backing its latest round.

Media group Vice, backed by various corporates, is looking to raise a $200m in equity and debt financing, after laying off 10% of its employees

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

Parkwalk Advisors has sold on most of its stake in Oxford-founded drone designer Animal Dynamics, securing a 6.9 times return.

Innovative Region: Israel

Sector focus: Industrial

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

GUV editor Thierry Heles reports from Autm’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas

JLL Spark's $100m Global Venture Fund has appointed Concrete VC to source real estate technology investment opportunities in the EMEA region.