Series D

The space debris removal company has raised another $30m for its series D round from investors including UTokyo Innovation Platform and has now received $132m in total.

Goldwind, Legal & General and Equinor have all taken part in a series D that achieved a $41m first close and boosted the Oxford spinout’s total equity and debt to more than $118m.

Microsoft, Bridgestone and Qualcomm all contributed to a series D round for MIT spinout ClearMotion, which emerged from stealth earlier last year with $130m in funding.

UCL spinout Promethera Biosciences has received $11.3m in series D funding from Itochu and $16.6m in a convertible debt round backed by Sosei.

AutoGrid, the distributed energy management platform backed by Stanford, will use the capital from the Eon, CLP, Innogy, Total, Ørsted and Tenaska-backed round to boost hiring.

Existing backers AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson returned for a round that will advance PhaseBio's orphan disease drug pipeline, based on research from Duke University.

MIT spinout Formlabs has achieved unicorn status after obtaining $15m from New Enterprise Associates.

ETH Zurich and University of Zurich spinout InSphero has now raised $35m and will commercialise its organ-on-a-chip technology.