Q&A with Suzanna Chiu, head, Amadeus Ventures

The University of Cambridge-aligned healthcare and life sciences accelerator has added Novartis as a strategic partner.

The biotech investment firm is the first external life sciences investor to get a fund commitment from pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

The pharmaceutical firm was one of the contributors to the first fund closed by healthcare tchnology accelerator Start Codon, at $19.7m.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Restart the Future is tasked with helping to build 1,000 Swedish startups and its partners include Ericsson, Nordea, Amazon Web Services, Max Matthiessen, Ramboll, Werlabs, Mavenir, Mondial, Baker McKenzie and Stena.

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

Banco Sabadell exited the salary advance service, which was incubated by Sabadell-backed venture builder Nuclio, in a purchase by counterpart Hastee.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Partly based on University of Bern research, Synendos aims to restore the endocannabinoid system to treat dysfunction in the central nervous system.