Consumer

Where do you begin to summarise a year that has been the most challenging on a global scale in living memory?

Feature: artificial intelligence driving disease prevention, digital health enables personalised medicine, investment takes off

Sector analysis: Industrial

Medici Living Group has exited co-living spinoff Quarters through a purchase by Habyt, shortly after shutting the brand’s US operations earlier this year.

Xiaomi-backed smart electronics provider Longcheer received $100m in a round co-led by Shenzhen Capital Group and Shenzhen Qianhai Wanrong Hongtu Investment Fund.

The Future Value Fund I will invest in pre-seed companies, including spinouts from Rev1's long-time partner Ohio State University.

The e-commerce space was given enormous boost by the covid-19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders around the globe.

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

Sony and Pksha Technology helped the vertical strawberry farm operator raise cash that will go to increasing production and widening its product range.

Innovative region: South Korea

The Novel Group and CAA-backed wholesale marketplace platform developer has taken in funding from investors including Brighton Park Capital and Imaginary Ventures.