Industrial

PalaeoPi, which began operations almost a year ago, is developing a photogrammetry-powered 3D scanner called MKIII TablePi for purposes including archaeology.

Royal Cosun has joined fellow corporates Bühler, AkzoNobel and Wuppermann as LPs in the cleantech and sustainability-focused fund.

Synthetic silk developer Spiber, backed by Godwin and Dai-ichi Life, has now raised a total of more than $260m.

Synthetic silk developer Spiber spun out of Keio University in 2007 and has now raised a total of more than $260m.

Cornes has pumped more cash into Bristol's haptics technology spinout Ultrahaptics to take its total to $84.3m.

Collaboration platform for the construction industry PlanGrid was acquired by software developer Autodesk for $875m.

Mitsubishi Chemical Holdings and Niantic have joined a series C round for DigiLens that stood at $25m as of May this year and already included Continental.

SK Holdings is set to invest $240m in the copper foil manufacturer as the corporate pursues a strategy to increase its ecosystem of electric vehicles-related companies.

Two large and important deals above the $1bn mark in the e-commerce and e-retail space in East Asia appeared in the news last week. Both deals involved telecoms group SoftBank as a corporate backer.

Wind turbine producer Goldwind returned and 36Kr Fund also invested as Tsinghua's rocket technology developer LandSpace secured $43.2m in a series B-plus round.