Industrial

Nuno Carvalho, formerly director of innovation and corporate venturing at Bekaert, has spoken to GCV about his new remit as an investment director for KBC's VC investment vehicle, KBC Focus Fund.

JLL's investment and innovation arm took part in a $31.4m round that took electric motor developer Software Motor Company’s total funding to $48m.

Ford and Baidu are in line for exits after 3D sensor technology developer Velodyne Lidar appointed banks to underwrite an IPO expected to value it at $1.8bn.

Adidas, Arkema, Johnson & Johnson and JSR contributed to a round that took 3D printing technolpogy provider Carbon's total funding to more than $680m.

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

Industrial e-commerce platform Zhenkunhang raised a $160m corporate-backed series D round, which forms part of the emerging e-commerce space

Blackhorn Ventures and Tenfore Holdings co-led a $14.3m round for the construction management software developer, whose earlier backers include Autodesk.

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

Adiari Vazquez, formerly investment manager at Caixa Geral de Depósitos’ Caixa Capital subsidiary, has joined Siemens-backed Next47 as an associate.

AgFunder has joined Rocket Seeder to form a new agriculture and food accelerator with Singaporean government support to complement the launch of its $50m, Southeast Asia-focused VC fund.

Satt Sud-Est has assigned an exclusive licence to Arteac-Lab, co-founded by former CNRS researcher Philippe Herzog, for an electroacoustic modeling software called Simbox.