The merchant group’s LDC Innovations fund will back food and agtech startups, with Max Clegg, its former head of food innovation, heading up the unit.

Fosun was among the participants in an eight-figure round for new materials producer Mingxun Hi-Tech Material that will support product development.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Gradient Ventures and Prologis Ventures both contributed to a round that will fund research and development for the logistics management platform developer.

Toyota AI Ventures, Micron Ventures, Hella Ventures and Presidio Ventures have all invested in the video analytics system developer.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Continental Grain invested in a series D round that boosted the RNA technology provider's overall funding to $214m as it allocates more resources to vaccine work.

The mushroom ingredient developer has now raised more than $120m in total, Greenleaf Foods co-leading a round featuring Continental Grain, Bunge, Kellogg’s, Tyson and Rich’s.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.