Gree's corporate venturing arm has closed its third fund having raised more than $100m despite failing to reach its initial target.

The vehicle will back early-stage life sciences proposals from Utrecht province with support from both UMC Utrecht and Utrecht University.

Corporate venturing units BCH Ventures and Singha Ventures are among the limited partners for Creative Ventures' second fund, which is over halfway to its $50m target.

Supply chain services provider Imperial Logistics is targeting early-stage logistics with a fund that is being managed by venture firm Newtown Partners.

Imperial College London has opened a new funding stream for its early-stage research with the launch of its Parkwalk Advisors-managed Innovation Fund.

Portal Innovations will target biomedical spinouts from across the Midwest under the direction of ex-UChicago innovation veteran John Flavin.

Neil Woodford could return to the stage with a bid for some of his old assets should ongoing talks with unnamed UK-based institutional investors and wealth managers succeed.

Lightspeed Venture Partners has taken $20m from the insurer for two funds whose predecessors closed at a combined $2.1bn.

Disney Accelerator's 2020 cohort will feature 10 growth-stage businesses in spaces including artificial intelligence and augmented reality.

The ride sharing company has opened the application period for its third Velocity scale-up initiative and launched a Vietnam-based startup accelerator called Ignite.