Industrial

The agricultural cooperative has formed an accelerator called Dairy Accelerator that will provide $25,000 each to its dairy-focused participants.

The customer relationship management software producer launched four specialist funds with $250m of capital and scored big on the IPO exit front.

Tencent added huge private equity deals to investments in the likes of Meituan-Dianping, Go-Jek and Flipkart before a run of huge IPOs late in the year.

The Techstars-backed Farm to Fork Accelerator will give food and agtech startups access to funding and networking opportunities.

The 3D printing technology producer has reached the first close of a $200m series D round featuring JSR, Adidas and GE Ventures.

The Google owner committed big money to Lyft and Airbnb as GV increased its late-stage deals, formed an AI fund called Gradient and exited from Snap and Cloudera in IPOs.

The commercial space launch company was founded by China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation and China Sanjiang Space Industry Group.

The telecommunications group raised almost $98bn for its Vision Fund and dominated the tech VC space in 2017.

UV Boosting is the first spinout to emerge from a collaboration between Satt Sud-Est and startup studio TechnoFounders.

Royal College of Art has spun out Pollinator Orchard Management, which will develop agtech to boost pollination rates and crop yields by exploiting natural pollinators such as flies.