Industrial

The Autodesk-backed lunar spacecraft developer has now raised $47.5m in funding altogether, securing $2.5m in a bridge round and $10m of a $20m series B.

HUJ’s tech transfer arm still hopes to raise a further $3m for the fund to close it at $9m and has already invested in three technologies.

The Delft-affiliated fund has reached its first close on its way to a $120m target, having secured capital from a range of limited partners.

Shenzhen Huanuo Innovation was among the investors in a series B-plus round that will help the electronic components trading platform expand warehouse capacity.

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.

Kaloyan Andonov of GCV spoke to Geert van de Wouw, vice-president at Shell Ventures, the venturing subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major Shell about the future of energy and how the rebranded venturing arm under his command tackles it.

University and government venturing successes fail to attract significant corporate interest

A range of new materials and technologies could yield vastly improved batteries for purposes including electric vehicles and grid storage.

Sector report: Energy

The following is a snapshot of the data we have collected on investment activity over the past three months. To verify reported deals, we contact about 300 corporate investors each quarter – these comprise roughly 18% of the global CVCs we cover, but account for most of the deals that are made public.

Subsidiaries of 3M and Caterpillar have both backed smart industrial hardhat developer Guardhat, boosting its overall funding to $24m.