Industrial

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

Dublin City University pollution monitoring platform developer Ambisense has secured capital from investors including the University Bridge Fund.

Innovate UK and Longwall Ventures have put up seed capital for Warwick-founded Verdel Instruments, which hopes to commercialise a benchtop-sized lab instrument for conducting two-dimensional mass spectrometry.

Purdue Ag-celerator Fund has injected capital into farming robot developer Rogo Ag, which is aiming to make farming more efficient by reducing errors in soil sampling.

Road freight documentation platform Vector has closed its Congruent Ventures-backed series A at $12m, adding $2m to the initial close reported last month.

NTU Singapore and Intellectual Ventures have set up a spinout to commercialise a blockchain-powered logistics network for 3D printed parts.

The university's new $100m Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering will aim to kindle the advancement of novel technologies in partnership with the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation.

BASF Venture Capital and Xiamen C&D are among the limited partners in Longwater Investment’s advanced materials-focused fund, which was already backed by Solvay.

University of Tsukuba-founded submarine drone maker FullDepth secured capital from investors including Sumitomo Forestry’s Tsukuba Research Institute and Mitsui Sumitomo Capital.

HTGF and Consantia Industries have pumped funding into EPFL spinout Neural Concept, which believes its deep learning technology will reduce lead times for manufacturers of physical goods.

Several university investors lined up to support sensory film supplier Forcen's seed round, with the proceeds allocated towards an expansion in production capacity and headcount.