Industrial

The number of corporate-backed companies going public declined in 2019, despite some major IPOs like those of Uber, Lyft and Slack.

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

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

Fujita, Industrial Growth Platform and SBI were among the investors in the automation technology developer, a spinout of University of Tokyo.

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

Fujita, Industrial Growth Platform and SBI were among the investors in the automation technology developer, a graduate of Nvidia’s Inception Program.

Lockheed Martin Ventures was among the participants in a round the satellite launch system developer said closed in March.

The agricultural marketplace operator has completed the series F round's $360m second tranche, which followed a $175m first close featuring FedEx in January this year.

Business optimisation platform developer Farmer’s Business Network was reportedly valued at $1.75bn in the round, which included long-term backer GV.

Business-to-business petroleum marketplace Nengyuanhui has now raised more than $29m in total, with 51zhaoyou backing a round sized at about $14m.

Cash Capital portfolio company Standard Robots has secured fresh funds to enter new markets with its logistics robot offering.