The BeeEdge accelerator, formed by Panasonic and Scrum Ventures, will launch startups based on underutilised Panasonic technologies.

First Access Entertainment has turned to angel investor Simon Tikhman for a fund that will invest in businesses with the potential to satisfy the youth demographic.

Agricultural technology media, data and investment platform AgFunder is moving into direct corporate venturing.

Volvo Cars Tech Fund will support developers of technology such as AI, electric vehicles and charging, autonomous driving and digital mobility.

The business school hopes the partnership will strengthen the ecosystem, leveraging its faculty, program participants and alumni network for the initiative.

Retail conference host Shoptalk has teamed up with Commerce Ventures for a $1m fund that aims to back 20 e-commerce and retail startups.

Amazon Alexa Fund's accelerator, run in partnership with Techstars, will welcome 13 startup to its 2018 cohort, three of which will be able to work in London.

The fund will invest up to $40m a year to back developers of drugs that will address the growing resistance of diseases to antibiotics.

The fund will be managed by Teri Willey for Indiana University Research and Technology Corp and will focus on prototyping and proof-of-concept through to early-stage investments.