Tampa General Hospital will begin a diversified corporate venturing programme when Rachel Feinman joins it in early 2021.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Gregg Tushaus will manage Corporate Central Credit Union's newly formed fintech investment vehicle, which will invest up to $400,000 per deal.

Venture firm Seventure’s Health For Life Capital Fund II has received a contribution of undisclosed size from Archer Daniels Midland.

Norilsk Nickel, the world's largest miner of palladium and high-grade nickel, has joined several peers in corporate venturing.

The MIT Media Lab-focused deep tech venture firm is back with its second fund having secured $24.6m of a targeted $80m from unnamed investors.

Hans Lenk and Gustavo Cavenaghi have launched Kortex Ventures, which will invest up to $35m on behalf of two large healthcare corporations in Brazil.

Drug producer Kyowa Kirin helped the life sciences venture firm, a spinoff from Elan Corporation, close an oversubscribed $146m third fund.

The fresh fruit provider has selected Barbara Guerpillon to head corporate venturing unit Dole Ventures after five years leading Unilever's Foundry Asia business.

Daikin and Nippon Life are the latest LPs for the vehicle formally called Kansai Innovation Network, whose investors already include corporates Eneserve, Hankyu Hanshin, Iwatani, Rohto and Shionogi.