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American Family Ventures, SoftBank Capital and Verizon Ventures all reinvested in the car repair services provider in a $10.2m round led by Royal Bank of Canada.

Toyota AI Ventures and Hyundai have put their firepower behind Perceptive Automata's behavioural prediction system for autonomous vehicles, three months after it emerged from stealth.

SAIC, BAIC and Cainiao all invested in the lidar technology developer, whose previous backers include Fosun and its Kinzon Capital vehicle.

The university’s Office of Technology Transfer launched 21 spinouts while achieving a 10% rise in inventions disclosed and a record number of licences and options agreed.

The Toyota Tsusho and Digital Garage-backed online car trading platform has added series E funding to the $30m series D round it closed in May.

This is our data snapshot based on last month’s investment activity. 
The charts and tables have been generated by our data platform GCV Analytics.

Kaloyan Andonov of GCV spoke to Geert van de Wouw, vice-president at Shell Ventures, the venturing subsidiary of Anglo-Dutch oil and gas major Shell about the future of energy and how the rebranded venturing arm under his command tackles it.

A range of new materials and technologies could yield vastly improved batteries for purposes including electric vehicles and grid storage.

University and government venturing successes fail to attract significant corporate interest

Sector report: Energy

The following is a snapshot of the data we have collected on investment activity over the past three months. To verify reported deals, we contact about 300 corporate investors each quarter – these comprise roughly 18% of the global CVCs we cover, but account for most of the deals that are made public.