Industrial

Canada-based corporates and governments need to match their US counterparts and be less 'Canadian' in order to grow the country's venture capital sector.

Tate & Lyle and BASF are set to exit the yeast fermentation company after it agreed to an all-stock acquisition by Evolva.

Manchester University and National Physical Laboratory enter agreement to commercialise graphene.

Semiconductor maker Cavendish Kinetics has raised $7m in a round featuring Qualcomm Ventures, bringing the total raised by the company up to $32.5m.

Ambiq Micro, a provider of ultra-low power integrated circuits for power-sensitive applications, raised $15m in an ARM-backed round that lifted its total funding to $35m.

Focusing on genomic technologies for the livestock industry, new spin-out Delta Genomics will operate as a non-profit.

Oxford University Isis Fund I and other existing investors participate in the round.

Iron Shell is exploiting a new cement-like material dubbed Ferrock.

Exit numbers in October were high thanks to the KRW 10 trillion ($9.4bn) merger of online messaging company Kakao, and internet portal Daum Communications, both based in South Korea.