Existing investor Corning returned to take part in a round that increased the high-tech glass producer's total funding to about $510m.

US-based specialist glass producer View raised $150m yesterday from investors including glass manufacturer Corning, one of the company’s existing backers.

The round also featured NZ Super Fund, the New Zealand sovereign wealth fund that invests on behalf of the country’s pensioners, private equity fund Madrone Capital Partners, and undisclosed additional investors.

The company had secured $28.7m of a proposed $75m round in January, and although reports two months later revealed the round had been raised to $100m, it…