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Appliance manufacturer Midea is targeting between $147m to $293m for the fund and has contributed $44m through its own investment arm.

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

The funding for Shimane's Nanotechnology Project Center came from San-in Godo Bank through an industry-academia cooperation program.

Yamaha Motor Ventures & Lab has shuffled its management, with Hiroshi Saijou moving to chairman and George Kellerman taking on his CEO and managing director roles.

We present you three charts that summarise some of the major trends and highlights in corporate venturing from 2018 and years prior

China-based Haier Group has provided $100m of series B funding for Cloud Constellation, the creator of a space-based cloud storage network.

Osage University Partners was among the investors to supply seed funding for robotic technology developer Elementary Robotics.

The first flotation of a ride hailing business, expected in early 2019, will give an exit to a range of corporate investors and will move this business model into public markets.

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

In the second half of our guide to corporate venturing's biggest trends in 2018, we look at the growth of Chinese tech companies, genomics, advances in transport tech and the growth of the scooter rental space.