Industrial

Unnamed university endowments have put funding into Material Impact’s inaugural vehicle, which will incubate materials businesses including spinouts in industries such as energy, transportation and healthcare.

In this short piece, we provide a comparison of our GCV Analytics data with Pitchbook’s data up until the end of the third quarter of 2018.

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

Global Corporate Venturing’s inaugural award for ‘Energy-tech Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) Investment of the Year’ was announced on November 8th during the Venture Houston conference.

Nutrien, Sumitomo Corporation Europe and Wilbur-Ellis unit Cavallo Ventures all came in as new investors for the agricultural monitoring platform's series B round.

Longwall Ventures has led a $2.8m seed round for University of Oxford’s newest spinout, quantum technologies-based sensor technology developer Oxford HighQ.

3M Ventures has participated in a $13.7m round for VTT spinout Dispelix, which is working on augmented reality display technology.

The industrial cutting equipment maker has formed a unit called Hypertherm Ventures that will invest in advanced manufacturing and adjacent technologies.

Microsoft-backed automated drone provider Airobotics took its total funding past the $100m mark with a round led by Singapore's Pavilion Capital.

VTT Ventures has supported a $13.7m series A round for the institute's spinout Dispelix, which is working on see-through displays.

Oxford University Innovation has released its quarterly figures that reveal more than 89% of external investments in its spinouts occurred in August.