Industrial

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

GUV editor Thierry Heles reports from Autm’s annual meeting in Austin, Texas

JLL Spark's $100m Global Venture Fund has appointed Concrete VC to source real estate technology investment opportunities in the EMEA region.

Amazon led the latest round of electric truck developer Rivian Automotive sized at $700 – the first large corporate-backed round in this space for 2019.

Fraunhofer has invested in Enerthing, which is launching IoT products powered by solar foils invented in partnership with Fraunhofer ISE.

Satt Sud-Est spinouts Click4Tag, C4Hydro and C4Biocontrol will merge to boost the commercialisation of microbe monitoring technologies built on research from six institutions.

University of Tokyo’s Utec has extended its foray into Indian VC investments by starting an accelerator in partnership with local venture fund Blume Ventures.

Kao Yuan University's Gintel has created water quality monitoring systems that can provide information on 50 parameters of toxicity and recommend remedies.

SoftBank Vision Fund invested $1.46bn to take Grab's series H round, already backed by Toyota, Hyundai, Kia, Booking Holdings, Central Group, Yamaha, Ping An, Microsoft, Tokyo Century and KBank, to $4.5bn.

Process management technology developer Iconpro was founded out of RWTH Aachen last year and is targeting its services at the manufacturing sector.