Industrial

The agribusiness venture fund, backed by partners including Tereos, AG2R-La Mondiale and Groupama, has funded eight companies since its April 2014 formation.

EDF joined Cisco and a host of Canadian venture capital investors in backing McRock Capital, which is targeting $65m for its industrial internet of things fund.

The semiconductor maker's technology links up with the robotics technology it is funding through the accelerator, according to its head, Houman Haghighi.

908 Devices, backed by Arch and Tokyo University, increases C round to $13m.

The optical transceiver maker raised $38m in a series C round in September co-led by Google's growth equity unit.

The Google and Nihon-backed power conversion technology producer has now raised almost $230m in total, after securing $70m in a KKR-led round.

Qualcomm Ventures, Sapphire Ventures, which has SAP as its sole limited partner, Softbank Corporation and US financial firm SVB Financial were big winners from the floatation of the fitness tracking business last week.

Global Corporate Venturing tracked six direct investments linked to oil and gas corporate venturing units. There was also one undisclosed fund investment by Chevron Technology Ventures, the sponsor of our research, and an exit by Statoil Technology Ventures.