The healthcare provider's hospitals have committed $105m to its Partners Innovation Fund, and it has raised $66.1m from external backers for another fund.

Plastic Omnium has committed capital to a $280m fund being raised by Aster Capital, which already counts Alstom, Solvay and Schneider Electric as backers.

SoftBank revealed the enlarged size of its Vision Fund in its quarterly earnings report, with the additional $4.5bn coming directly from the corporate.

The pharmaceutical firm has joined forces with Centre for Drug and Research Development to fund new life science therapies.

The funding will be shared between Michigan Corporate Relations Network and Technology Transfer Talent Network, two schemes which assist all Michigan state-owned universities.

Investors including Lenovo, Haier and Legend Capital contributed to a series C round for travel services provider Phoenix Travel Worldwide.

Reports suggest that the financial services firm has launched a fund sized at up to $30m and hopes to scale it quickly.

Northwestern Mutual and Aurora Health Care have each put $5m into respective VC vehicles Cream City Venture Capital and InvestMKE.

The talent agency has launched a startup studio that is equipped with $12.5m of cash from investors including Telegraph Media and Entertainment One.