University of Tsukuba-founded submarine drone maker FullDepth secured capital from investors including Sumitomo Forestry’s Tsukuba Research Institute and Mitsui Sumitomo Capital.

Mercia Technologies has returned to back Warwick-founded medtech spinout Medherant, which is preparing to advance its adhesive Tepi Patch technology through the clinic.

Free-roam VR experience technology company Holodeck VR has been backed by ProSiebenSat.1 Media, raising the prospect of business development collaborations with the corporate's television networks.

Stanford-backed student support platform UpSwing has added $2m from investors including Impact America Fund to take its total to approximately $5m.

Cambridge open source hardware spinout LowRisc has been backed by Alphabet's Google, which has sent two representatives to its board of directors.

CIC has returned to supply AI forecasting platform Prowler.io with series B capital and help take the company's overall funding to $39m.

Farm e-commerce company On the Slope has won support from Kyoto University’s KU-iCap, with the funding allocated for expansion in several Asian countries.

The Parkwalk-managed co-investment fund has supplied Cambridge cancer therapy spinout PolyProx Therapeutics with capital, augmenting a $4.4m seed round for the latter announced earlier this month.

ICL medical device developer GripAble has added funding from Triple Point Impact EIS Investment Fund to $198,000 of equity secured from investors including Oxford Technology Management in 2017.

Power grid management technology developer Synaptec spun out of University of Strathclyde in 2014 and has now won support from the corporate-backed Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund.