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Sector focus: Transport

The astonishing development of the private capital markets for fast-growing companies in the past five years is easy to record but only when put against public markets does the transformation in liquidity become apparent.

Rob Lavine, News editor for Global Corporate Venturing, reviews the trends in venturing from 2018

In our annual survey of corporate venturing industry leaders, we asked what were the most important trends in 2017 and sought their insights into the big opportunities of 2018.

Adelaide's ThincLab and University of New England's SRI AgTech incubators will receive $357,000 and $229,000 of government funding respectively.

The Novel-backed second-hand luxury goods marketplace, valued at $745m in its last round, has approached investment banks about underwriting an initial public offering this year.

David Parfett, who helped Qantas form a CVC unit as head of its Innovation and Ventures team, will do the same for Westfield owner Scentre.

The yoghurt producer has completed a $25.6m co-led by Danone's Manifesto Ventures subsidiary that increased its overall debt and equity financing to more than $46m.

Smart car maker Byton seeks to raise another $500m after having raised a $500m corporate-backed rounds last year.

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

The Meituan Dianping spinoff, which is also backed by Enlight Media and Tencent, has set the range for its Hong Kong initial public offering.