Publicis Groupe will provide between $11,000 and $550,000 to 90 startups through the #Publicis90 scheme in a bid to celebrate its 90th birthday.

IBF, backed by Biogen and Medison, has led an $8m series A round for small-molecule drug developer Vidac Pharma, which has an actinic keratosis treatment in phase 2 trials.

Monsanto and Qualcomm are partnering Microsoft on a $92m fund that will support Latin America-founded agribusiness technology startups.

The telecommunications company will invest $15,000 each in up to seven social impact-focused startups participating in its Singtel Future Makers initiative.

The Kellogg-founded unit will generally invest between $1m and $3m at a time and the impetus behind its launch was the rate of innovation in food technology, Kellogg's vice-president of investor relations told GCV.

Infinity Venture Partners' third fund, backed by Recruit, Orso, Sammy Networks, Mixi and United, has reached $75m with help from the Taiwanese government.

A healthcare fund in Israel gets a boost as Liberty University invests $5m from its endowment in a move to stand against calls for education institutions to divest.

Tsinghua Holdings, the investment firm backed by Tsinghua University, commits at least $7.6bn to research over the next five years and will set up a commercialisation fund.

Danone Manifesto Ventures is set to make its first investment, entering talks with food brand Michel et Augustin, reportedly to acquire a stake of up to 40%.

Virtual Reality Venture Capital Alliance is helmed by HTC Vive and made up of 28 partners including Colopl and Legend Holdings with a total of $10bn in deployable capital.