Industrial

Meat substitute developer Beyond Meat, which has received backing from two corporate venturers, went public.

Alchemist Accelerator has picked out 20 startup companies for its 21st cohort, as it raised $4m of capital from BASF Venture Capital and Qatar Development Bank.

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

Mitsubishi Chemical, Shin-Etsu, Sekisui, Tosoh, Henkel, JSR, PTT GLobal, Adidas, CorrsTek, Severstal and Doosan all contributed to Pangaea Ventures' latest fund.

Motus, which backs spinouts from a range of universities and research institutes, has secured cash from unnamed investors for its Smart World Innovation Fund.

University of Hawaii System’s UH Ventures will participate in a fund of undisclosed size in support of an aquaculture-focused accelerator that will welcome its inaugural cohort this autumn.

Cirtemo, which incorporated University of South Carolina-born MagAssemble, has been acquired by Thorlabs for an unspecified amount.

AgFunder plans to establish an accelerator in Southeast Asia in addition to two corporate venturing funds to invest in the participants.

The autonomous vehicle spin-off has been backed by three corporates Toyota, SoftBank and Denso that have agreed to invest $1bn

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

3D printing technology producer Carbon, which counts more than half a dozen corporates as investors, has filed to raise $300m in equity financing.