Industrial

Cash Capital portfolio company VIPioneers has closed on series A2 funding in the run-up to mass-production of its autonomous coalmine transport system.

Supply chain services provider Imperial Logistics is targeting early-stage logistics with a fund that is being managed by venture firm Newtown Partners.

Imperial College London has opened a new funding stream for its early-stage research with the launch of its Parkwalk Advisors-managed Innovation Fund.

Alphabet’s self-driving car developer Waymo raised its first external funding in a round backed by its parent company and two other corporates.

Nxrobo participated in a $14.4m round for satellite services provider MinoSpace, whose early investors include Yongxin and China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.

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

Bio-fungicide and pesticide developer Biotalys has added $11.3m to a Globalchem-backed round now totalling $50.9m.

MIT Media Lab-affiliated E14 Fund has invested in the biomanufacturing software provider as part of a series A round led by Cultivian Sandbox Ventures.

Alphabet subsidiary Verily returned to reinvest in the biomanufacturing software provider as part of a series A round led by Cultivian Sandbox Ventures.

Biotalys, a bio-fungicide and pesticide developer based on VIB technology previously known as AgroSavfe, has added $11m to its series C round.

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