Industrial

Advanced materials and chemicals platform developer Citrine Informatics has now received about $44m in total, having secured Siemens Next47 as an investor.

Innovative region: New York

In mid-October there were six Global Corporate Venturing stories on life sciences startups raising capital.

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

The fund will provide capital for MIT-founded Gingko's own spinouts and has attracted LPs including Viking Global Investors, General Atlantic and Cascade Investment.

The $350m fund will provide capital for Gingko spinoffs and has attracted limited partners including Viking Global Investors, General Atlantic and Cascade Investment.

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

The factory robotics software provider has now raised more than $29m altogether, with iRobot and Comcast likely among the investors in its series B round.

Boeing HorizonX is providing equity funding for space exploration company Virgin Galactic in connection with the latter's proposed listing on the New York Stock Exchange.

Hearst Ventures joined returning investor Boeing HorizonX Ventures to increase SparkCognition's total funding to $173m.

Emergency response support platform RapidSOS added $25m to close a series B round that already featured CSAA and Microsoft's M12 unit.