The commercialisation firm has secured support for a takeover from shareholders who hold 96.5% between them in its peer Touchstone Innovations.

BMW Innovation Lab 2018's 10-week initiative will provide startups with advice and access to investors, and the corporate is also seeking innovators from within the company.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest up to $40m in the biological drug developer, which raised $320m in an Eli Lilly-backed round two years ago.

The LVMH-backed private equity firm has acquired a 27.9% stake in craft beer brewer Innis & Gunn in return for a $20.3m investment.

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will invest up to $40m in the biological drug developer, which raised $320m in an Eli Lilly-backed round two years ago.

The surgery robotics developer has added $26m from investors including Cambridge Innovation Capital to complete its series A round, 14 months after closing the first tranche.

Lancaster University spinout Relative Insight has received an undisclosed sum from a government-backed investment vehicle for its linguistics-based market research product.

Corporate venturing units Axa Strategic Ventures and InnovAllianz joined Idinvest Partners and Kima Ventures to invest $7.2m in encryption software developer Tanker.