Industrial

Juniper Networks and Cox have backed a sizeable series B round for edge and cloud computing tech developer StackPath.

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

DuPont is shutting down its corporate venture capital arm as part of a cost-saving process that will involve it cutting its corporate innovation activities.

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

The industrial management platform developer, which counts Zhongyeda Group as an early investor, pulled in $14.2m through a round led by Jiafu Asset Management.

The Japan-based plant seedling producer’s $4.7m Farm to Table Fund will invest in food and agritech startups to support the food supply chain.

Axel Johnson investment fund Novax co-led a $15.3m round for the vegan protein and dairy substitute developer with Capricorn Partners Sustainable Chemistry Fund.

Cellular Agriculture was spun out of University of Bath in 2016 as the UK’s first startup in the cultured meat space, but its ambitions go far beyond a lab-grown burger.

Prepared by researchers from the Washington University, St Louis on behalf of The Yield Lab, sponsored by Rabo Strategic Ventures

Monthly analysis: February 2020

The United Nations-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has previously estimated the world will need to remove an average of 10 gigatons –10 billion tons – of carbon dioxide (CO2) a year from the atmosphere by 2050.