Transport

Urban Infrastructure Partner, which provides bicycle sharing services for municipal clients in Norway and Scotland, raised the cash from Møller Mobility and Selvaag Invest.

Banks have reportedly suggested a $120bn valuation for Uber's IPO, while Lyft has chosen JP Morgan to lead an offering that could value it at more than $15bn.

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

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.