Financial services provider Shinhan has deployed an Indonesian version of its Future’s Lab initiative in partnership with CoHive.

Anglo American Platinum-backed investment fund AP Ventures has secured $30m from Compagnie Plastic Omnium for its AP Ventures Fund II fund.

Vodacom Tanzania and Smart Lab have established a $150,000 accelerator that will coach founders of early and growth-stage companies in sectors including mobile, fintech and education.

The Gojek Xcelerate accelerator will take 20 local businesses through their paces in areas over the course of a six-month period.

Julia Ognieva, who set up the LDN_LAB scheme while at Facebook, has joined accounting software provider Intuit.

Shubhang Shankar has been promoted to a managing director at Syngenta's corporate venturing unit, following the departures of Katrin Burt and Derek Norman.

Ex-GCV Rising Star Christian Noske will head up the Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi unit, less than two years after joining from BMW i Ventures.

Kuehne + Nagel and Temasek's joint investment venture has launched with its first fund, to back logistics and supply chain technology startups.

After 22 years at Eli Lilly that included laying the groundwork for its corporate venturing activities, senior vice-president of corporate business development Darren Carroll is retiring.

Loebermann has left his position as head of corporate venturing for chemicals provider Altana for a managing director role at DP Polar.