The educational services provider will partner with Touchdown Ventures, a venture capital firm co-founded by two ex-employees of Comcast Ventures.

The $15m fund, backed by conglomerate Chokhani Group will make investments in 10 to 15 India-based startups each year.

The corporate-backed venture firm has already made two exits out of its $448m first fund, and its first investment from the $500m fund it just closed.

Apollo Education Ventures launches out of Apollo Education Group to invest in higher education.

The financial services firm's corporate venturing unit will expand its accelerator efforts across four continents with the help of Plug and Play Tech Centre.

CyberAgent Ventures's Seed Generator fund will offer individual investments to Japan-based startups of up to $100,000.

Wayne State University joins the growing number of institutions offering a student-run venture fund.

The mobile network operator will invest between $75,000 and $250,000 at a time and will target mobile internet startups.

The fund, co-managed with incubator Nest, will choose eight companies for its initial programme, which will focus on healthcare and insurance innovation.