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The Corporate Venture in Brasil 2015 event in October last year was the launch of a program with a full suite of resources to support corporations doing business and matching partners, deals and technologies. Around 600 leaders and investors joined hosts Apex-Brasil and Global Corporate Venturing for this first industry meeting point in Sao Paulo. Last month was the second annual edition, with the third planned for the week of 23 October 23 next year.

Tom Whitehouse, contributing editor, and chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum, explores trends in cleantech

Sector focus: Financial Services

Elanco joined existing backers including Bayer and Syngenta to add $8.5m to the accelerator's capital reserves, boosting them to $20m.

Evans Properties, Agro-Iron and Shrieve were among the investors in a round that will help the fertiliser producer prepare to build a second manufacturing plant.

Unity Biotechnology, which raised $116m last week, is the fourth Arch Venture Partners-launched startup to be backed by WuXi PharmaTech.

UPS, Mercedes-Benz and Yamaha are among the corporates using venture activity to assess technology in the transport space.

Essel Group Middle East has provided $18m of funding to LeadCold, which is looking to secure a license to build its small nuclear reactor systems in Canada.