Porter Alliance for Innovative Medicines will be equipped with $130m to advance research from Stanfordâs Innovative Medicines Accelerator.
NestlĂŠ is throwing its weight behind the Eureka Fund, a vehicle focused on spinouts from 27 research centres and universities across Italy.
Three years after its launch, Tel Aviv University-linked TAU Ventures has raised $50m for its second fund, with the potential to increase it to $70m.
The final amount raised for the PSV Tech01 fund is $10m above the DTU-linked venture firmâs initial target.
The TU Munich-linked venture capital firm has increased its third fund by more than $100m after launching it nearly a year ago.
The Redbud Capital-backed new materials-focused vehicle has attained its target, more than a year after a first close.
Andreas und Thomas StrĂźngmann, two of Germanyâs richest investors, have committed $29m to help expand TU Munichâs tech transfer operation.
The Earlybird Uni-X Fund will support early-stage spinouts originating from European institutions such as RWTH Aachen and Imperial College London.
University of Tokyo will invest an initial $89m in the fund, which will also seek external limited partners.
The European Investment Fund will provide half the capital for the $59m i&i Biotech Fund I, which will operate out of the Czech Republic.
Originally known as Oxford Sciences Innovation, the investment company set up by University of Oxford has undertaken a rebranding exercise.
The investment manager has become a limited partner in CSIRO-founded Main Sequence Ventures, which announced its $194m Fund 2 in April this year.
Penn Medicine and Wharton Social Impact Initiative have launched an investment fund focused on the drivers of health equity.
The digital media group has restructured its corporate venturing activities on the same day as China revealed proposals which would place investments under greater scrutiny.
Shell Ventures intends to invest the capital over the next six years to support energy technology startups and scale-ups.
Amy Wu joined the newly formed FTX Ventures from Lightspeed Venture Partners, where she had overseen the firm's investment in FTX as a partner.
In the first part of our look at 2021's corporate venturing trends, we examine the growth in funding, IPOs and SPAC mergers, a big year for M&A and the emergence of CVC in new sectors.
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