Industrial

“WeWork’s Bonkers IPO,” said Fortune’s daily newsletter. “The Weirdness of WeWork’s IPO Filing”, sister publication CEO Daily called it, adding: “If a recession is coming, the WeWork IPO filing… will be a fitting capstone for the peak.”

Laser project technology company Casiris Technology lured Cash Capital and Cas Star to the table for its series D-plus round.

September started out with news on several life sciences companies about to go public as well as a large acquisition deal of another one of them. This space enjoyed a great number of exits last year and the trend appears on a path to be continued through 2019.

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.

Limited partners including Cisco Investments and Shell have helped McRock Fund II achieve a $60.9m close, putting it 80% of the way to its target.

Smart industrial glove producer ProGlove has received $40m from Summit Partners that comes after two rounds featuring corporate venturer Intel Capital.

Anglo American Platinum-backed investment fund AP Ventures has secured $30m from Compagnie Plastic Omnium for its AP Ventures Fund II fund.

SoftBank, Times Internet and Fosun-backed logistics services provider Delhivery has received $115m from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board to take its total funding above $780m.

Optical component provider WaveOptics has added $13m to bring a series C round featuring Goertek and RBVC to $39m as it looks to ramp up production capacity.

Autodesk has led a $26.8m series C round for aPriori, which will use the money to accelerate the development of its product cost management platform.