Icos Cleantech Early Stage Fund II has Netherlands-listed industrial companies Royal BAM Group, CSM and Imtech as investors.

Battelle-backed 360ip links with Russia and Singapore state funds for nanotechnology fund in Asia.

Indian Oil to invest in tidal, solar and wind energy and enter a joint venture with Nuclear Power Corporation of India.

Argos Therapeutics, a biotechnology company previously known as Merix Bioscience, three-quarters of way through $6m funding round.

Veteran investor Yvonne Kwek is chief executive at launch of Singapore Telecommunications' S$200m ($150m) corporate venturing company.

Huatong Jianli Venture Capital Fund to start in China's Qingdao National High-Tech Industrial Development Zone.

Omnivore Capital is raising $50m and India-based conglomerate Godrej Group will commit 10% to the fund and has already made one recruit to a team that will act as its general partner.

Foshan Nanhai-CDC Technology and New Media Fund to be launched for China technology and media companies.

Newswire Bloomberg quotes Eli Lilly executive as saying it would commit up to 20% of each of the three venture funds that could raise $250m each.

Acer spin-off iD TechVentures aims to raise $300m in local currency and dollar-denominated China funds.