Industrial

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

The aerial data technology developer’s latest round was co-led by returning investor Energize Ventures and brought its total funding to $142m.

Fraunhofer Society has participated in a series B round for its solar wafer technology spinout, which also attracted Saudi Aramco.

If you can outsource manufacturing a part from a factory to the customer and reduce logistics and inventory costs it sounds appealing. So it is little surprise a host of industrial groups have explored additive manufacturing – also known as 3D printing.

Leaps by Bayer backed the gene-editing technology provider’s latest round, almost three years after it merged with existing Pairwise investor Monsanto Growth Ventures.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

NC State is the first of a planned five academic partners to benefit from on-campus commercialisation experts and access to capital.

V-Bio Ventures, the venture firm affiliated with VIB, will focus on healthcare and sustainable agriculture companies primarily in Belgium.

Airbus Ventures-backed space launch services provider Astra will get a listing on the Nasdaq Capital Market through the deal.

HY Energy and Yake Food-backed starch sugar additive manufacturer Zhejiang Huakang Pharmaceutical is set to go public in Shanghai.

Chart Industries and existing backer Chevron Technology Ventures helped the carbon capture system developer push its total funding past $150m.