Applied Materials' corporate venturing unit is partnering Empire State Development to fund startups in upstate New York while investing in an R&D hub at SUNY Polytechnic Institute.

Sistema Asia Fund managing director Kirill Kozhevnikov has departed, accepting a partner position at venture firm RTP Global.

Comcast Ventures' head of talent, Jen Kodner, has departed in order to manage executive searches for DFJ's portfolio companies.

Vrije Universiteit Brussel’s Camel-IDS collected funding from investors including Novo for a radiation-based oncology platform that will initially target Her2-positive brain metastatic breast cancer.

OSI is among the investors in drone developer Animal Dynamics’ latest round, which will help it develop products based on aerodynamics from the animal kingdom.

Tokyo telemedicine spinout Miup has been backed by Beyond Next Ventures in its bid to build an AI-powered healthcare ecosystem in Bangladesh.

The funding from crowdfunding platform SyndicateRoom is part of a wider series B round for Manchester gel therapy developer Gelmetix and adds to approximately $1.3m raised in 2014 and 2015.

Kebotix has emerged from Harvard University with backing from investors including Baidu to commercialise an automated approach to discovering new materials and molecules.

VC firm Panache Ventures has increased the target for its debut fund to approximately $38m after welcoming Telus Ventures as a limited partner.

Crowdfunding platform Readyfor has unveiled its first funding round, with investors including Globis, since launching from the wings of Tokyo internet services spinout Ohma in 2014.