Cures for HIV and blurred vision and using cosmic rays to monitor nuclear waste drums are on our list of recent promising university spinouts.

It is hard to build an agile, innovative startup inside a big corporation. But not impossible. Setting boundaries and defining your terms carefully will help minimise the risk of failure.

The CVC grows to €1bn in committed capital and becomes one of the largest venture capital units focused on electrification, digitisation and decarbonisation.

Catherine Zhou, who heads up HSBC's venture capital activities, tells Global Venturing it is going long on blockchain and tokenisation tech despite recent turmoil in the Web3 market.

The UK health insurer says it is a good time to launch a fund as the froth has come out of valuations and "sensible" money can go in.

Marty Reid, director of SETsquared Bristol and Engine Shed, will step up as interim executive director of SETsquared next month.

NCSoft invested $15m in Mysten Labs to take the latter’s series B round to $300m while Porsche backed Xanadu’s $100m series C.

Suzano and Yara participated in Agrolend’s $145m latest round while Xencor contributed to Zenas BioPharma’s $118m series B.

Xiaomi provided $68.9m in series C funding for Atech Automotive while Intel and Micron were part of Eliyan’s $40m series A round.

Looking for startups working on building the world more efficiently? Here are a few options — including seven that have had corporate backing.