Industrial

Smart car maker Byton seeks to raise another $500m after having raised a $500m corporate-backed rounds last year.

The chemicals manufacturer has expanded its portfolio of polymer materials for the 3D printing market by buying portfolio company Structured Polymers.

EPFL-founded exhaust filtering system spinout Daphne Technology has been backed by investors including oil producer Saudi Aramco.

Plant sciences startups Heliponix and Karyosoft each secured $50,000 investments after winning the fifth cohort of Purdue’s Ag-celerator competition.

Partly based on Polytechnic University of Valencia research, Kerionics hopes to commercialise a ceramic membrane-based system for producing industrial quantities of oxygen from waste gases.

Nanomaterials provider Nanogap, a spinout of University of Santiago de Compostela, received $2.1m from Repsol's Corporate Venture vehicle.

Nanomaterials provider Nanogap, a spinout of University of Santiago de Compostela, received $2.1m from Repsol's Corporate Venture vehicle.

India-based vehicle marketplace CarDekho closed a $110m CapitalG-backed round in the beginning of January, being the first notable deal for this year in the vehicle marketplace space.

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

MIT molten metal production spinout Boston Metal has drawn funding from the Engine in its first publicly disclosed funding round.

University of Cambridge flow sensor spinout Flusso was previously backed by the university’s Cambridge Enterprise tech transfer office in June 2017.