Ironclad Brewery expects to invest between $25,000 and $50,000 in about eight startups a year through its newly formed unit.

CNA Financial, NN Group and an unnamed insurance provider have supplied $75m for MTech's InsureTech fund, which has targeted a $150m close.

Meituan Dianping's investment arm has raised $300m from a consortium featuring the corporate itself as well as Tencent and New Hope.

The healthtech investment firm has closed a $188m third fund featuring several care providers and insurers as limited partners.

The fund, which emerged from Sundial and parent company Unilever, has closed at $100m and invested its first $30m in eight portfolio companies.

The Leap Fund will back early-stage, risky research that would not be able to secure funding through other channels.

VCU Ventures has launched with a founders-friendly licensing policy and will look to provide programs that benefit the university’s spinout ecosystem.

The conglomerate has formed a fund called Sun Sea Capital to make early-stage investments in Southeast Asian technology developers.

BNP Paribas, Naval Group, MGEN, KPN and Clarins will all contribute to a targeted $87.5m close for PSL Innovation Fund.