Francois Auque of Airbus Ventures went head to head with Jason Ball of Qualcomm Ventures Europe to discuss the relative prospects of each technology.

George Ugras, managing director at IBM Ventures, and Stanford professor Ilya Strebulaev discussed the business models of corporate venturing units and what drives their success.

The online real estate services platform has raised $19.5m from Daily Mail and General Trust as well as the Savills-backed Grosvenor Ventures, which led its series A last year.

Bupa's Blue Table accelerator is one of a range of corporate startup initiatives to be launched in the past month, including those by Rabobank, Bosch, HPE and Sunway.

Softbank has committed $28bn to its Vision Fund, including $8.2bn through the transfer of a 24.99% stake in its chip design subsidiary Arm.