Europe-wide venture firm Speedinvest has now assembled $225m for its latest fund, also backed by Université PSL and targeting pre-seed and seed investments.

The medical social network operator will target chronic disease management startups through the $76.3m fund, formed with Wuhan S&T Investment and China Merchants Bank.

JustCo, Frasers Property and Daito Trust have all put their weight behind the property technology startup hub, founded by a former WeWork China executive.

The University of Cambridge-aligned healthcare and life sciences accelerator has added Novartis as a strategic partner.

The biotech investment firm is the first external life sciences investor to get a fund commitment from pharmaceutical company Sanofi.

The pharmaceutical firm was one of the contributors to the first fund closed by healthcare tchnology accelerator Start Codon, at $19.7m.

The gas utility firm and Persol Innovation’s Auba unit have opened the application window for Toho Gas Accelerator Program 2020, which will run from January to March next year.

Shogakukan and ShoPro’s joint accelerator initiative, co-formed with 01Booster in June, has chosen 10 startups for its maiden cohort.

The unit, which oversees a portfolio including NextDoor, Pony.ai, Bird and Hippo, will operate as part of Comcast's business development division.

Restart the Future is tasked with helping to build 1,000 Swedish startups and its partners include Ericsson, Nordea, Amazon Web Services, Max Matthiessen, Ramboll, Werlabs, Mavenir, Mondial, Baker McKenzie and Stena.