TDK Ventures revealed its investment in vertical take-off and landing company AutoFlightX on stage at the GCVI Summit 2020 today.

Crédit Agricole is set to acquire a majority stake in portfolio company Linxo as fellow corporates Maif and Crédit Mutuel Arkéa exit.

The children's digital content platform has raised funding in a round that involved M12 joining an investor base that already included Sandbox and Co.

The university formed 23 new spinouts in 2019, while a total of 33 companies raised a combined $292m – an amount only beaten by 2016’s record-holding $408m.

Robert Bosch's BSH subsidiary has joined Techstars to form a home technology accelerator that will welcome 10 startups into its first cohort.

Merck Group spinoff iOnctura will put the $18.7m it raised in the M Ventures-backed round into a clinical trial for its solid tumour therapy.

The inflammatory disease therapy developer emerged from stealth to commercialise research from several Max Planck institutes and LDC.

Scott Brun, who headed AbbVie Ventures until last April, has taken on an R&D advisory role at pharmaceutical company Horizon Therapeutics.

Visa co-led a round that included GV, BNP Paribas, SBI Group and Siam Commercial Bank, bringing CurrencyCloud's total funding to $141m.

Monoqi, the furniture e-commerce platform formerly backed by Advance Publications, has been bought by Decovry for an undisclosed sum.