Industrial

Saudi Aramco, Airbus and Schlumberger all took part in a round that boosted the GV-backed industrial collaboration technology company's total funding to about $28m.

Four investments totalling $126m to be made by Michigan University's endowment are disclosed through the agenda for its Board of Regents meeting.

Christopher Moran had previously spent eight years from 2005 as general manager of Applied Ventures, and will head Lockheed Martin's newly formed CVC unit.

Robert Bosch's corporate venturing unit recently launched a $170m third fund, and China and agribusiness startups are on the menu, according to managing director Ingo Ramesohl.

Air Liquide's corporate venturing unit has invested in Carmat, Poly-Shape and Solidia Technologies so far in 2016, as well as Inpria.

Marshall Group is set to exit gas sensor technology producer CMOS after the agreement of an acquisition by AMS.

The AR display developer, backed by Motorola in 2005, has raised new funding from investors including Crystal-Optech and will use it to scale manufacturing.

Phomera Technologies unlocks an industrial process to replicate the colour-changing properties of butterfly wings.

Cisco is the main news of the past week but there's been plenty of fund launches and deals struck.

Paul Morris, corporate venturing adviser, UK Trade & Investment reviews the breakout sessions at the GCV Symposium 2016.

Toby Lewis, chief analytics officer, reviews the GCV Corporate Accelerator Unconference 2016.