Els Beirnaert, previously the senior manager of new ventures at VIB, has been promoted to head of new ventures.

Porsche Digital's first US deal is a commitment to venture capital fund E.ventures, following the unit's 2016 investment in parking space location app Evopark.

Osram invested in Agrilution through its newly formed corporate venture capital unit, Fluxunit, and Tengelmann Ventures is also an investor in the agritech startup.

HTGF has backed a series A round for Cardior Pharmaceuticals, a heart failure-focused spinout of Hannover Medical School.

University College Cork, Teagasc, Cork Institute of Technology and Institute of Technology Tralee have joined forces to launch a consortium with a combined research revenue of $160m.

Bruker has acquired Luxendo, a spinout of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory that closed an $8.4m series A round in January.

Boehringer Ingelheim and Bristol-Myers Squibb have backed a series A round for Cardior Pharmaceuticals, a heart failure-focused spinout of Hannover Medical School.