Industrial

Sumitomo has returned to back the warehouse robot developer's latest round, pushing its total funding past the $200m mark.

The NREP-founded Urban Sustainability Technology Fund has reached a final close having received backing from investors including Novo and Toyota unit Woven Capital.

Mobiliar took part in a $35m round for medicine transportation system developer SkyCell while Nice Investment co-led wealth management software provider Fount's $33.4m series C.

SoftBank is set to achieve an exit as the warehousing robotics technology developer prepares to go public in Oslo on October 20.

Corporate-backed cloud networking software provider Pluribus pushed its total funding to at least $110m while IAG has exited Hyper Anna in an acquisition by Alteryx.

Shernaz Daver, formerly an advisory partner at GV, has joined the venture firm as a senior operating partner and CMO to assist its expansion and growth projects.

The touchscreen technology developer, which counts Foxconn, Corning, LG-MRI, E Ink and Global Inkjet as investors, has completed its series B round.

Rabobank participated in the $15m series A portion of an equity-and-grant round for the pollination monitoring system provider.

Lithium mining process developer Lilac completed its series B round, which received backing from a several corporates. A sizeable round like this has been somewhat rare to see from the mining space, which has been so far somewhat neglected by corporates.

Amdocs and Comcast contributed to deep learning software provider Neural Magic's $30m series A round while packaging producer Creapaper completed a series B featuring Ranpak.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.