Campbell Soup has divested its stake in the agriculture-focused investment vehicle, for which it was the sole limited partner, to StepStone Group.

Bank Central Asia's accelerator has chosen 11 startups for the third cohort of its accelerator partnership with GK – Plug and Play.

The medical technology provider has formed Ascendum Capital Partners in partnership with DCP Capital and Qiming Venture Partners.

Warsaw Stock Exchange subsidiary GPW Ventures has teamed up with Poland’s National Centre for Agricultural Support for a fund that will manage an initial $6.6m.

Google for Startups and Indico Capital Partners have jointly formed a $13.7m fund and announced the first six startups in their Lisbon accelerator.

Merck & Co and Ackermans & van Haaren are among the limited partners for the $68m first close of Quadria Capital's healthcare technology fund.

A total of 23 biopharmaceutical producers have committed capital to the vehicle, which will provide funding for the creation of new antibiotics.

An unnamed endowment is among the LPs in Engineering Capital's third fund, which is aligned to the innovation pipelines at Stanford, Michigan and Toronto.

Novo is among the limited partners for Eir Ventures, which has launched with $86m to invest in life sciences technology startups.

Eli Lilly and Horizon Therapeutics contributed to the life sciences venture firm's Forbion Growth Opportunities Fund, which will make late-stage investments.