The Techstars-backed Farm to Fork Accelerator will give food and agtech startups access to funding and networking opportunities.

Corporates Varner and Gjensidige are among the limited partners for Hadean Ventures' first fund, which will back European life sciences startups.

The universities of Aston, Birmingham, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Warwick plan to launch a unified intellectual property office.

The educational publisher's newly formed EdVentures unit will back edtech startups, supplying funding, resources, networking and expertise.

Inven Capital, the strategic fund formed by Czech energy utility ?ez, has received $59m each from ?ez and European Investment Bank.

Rakuten and Techstars have partnered to launch an accelerator for startups developing technologies that can be used with social messaging apps.

Energy company Rosatom and Skolkovo Foundation have launched Vector, a competition

Saint-Gobain and JLL were among the limited partners that put up the cash, which VC firm Navitas will use for real estate and construction technology deals.