Industrial

The SoftBank and Baidu-backed agricultural drone developer has pulled in series C-plus-plus funding from Hillhouse Capital's GL Ventures fund.

This is the first in a series of quarterly publications for the Global Health Council looking at drug development, healthcare providers such as hospitals and digital health, payments and patient wellness. This first article looks at the implications of the disease treatments coming out of advanced research and artificial intelligence and the broader shift to digitalisation in healthcare. The next issue will focus on the providers of healthcare.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

The Harju Elekter-backed ultracapacitor producer will develop automated production technology with funding secured from the German government.

Monthly analysis: February

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

The operator of the online marketplace platform for electronic components has pulled in new funding from existing investor JD.com.

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.