WeWork Labs will launch new early-stage and growth-stage accelerator streams in Thailand focused on foodtech in partnership with Thai Union Group, National Innovation Agency and Mahidol University.

Tencent and Naspers-backed education platform Byju’s is targeting an expansion into the US, the UK, Australia and New Zealand following the $150m funding round.

“Since the start of his mandate in 2014, [European] Commissioner Carlos Moedas has been in strong support of the setting up of a European Innovation Council (EIC) for breakthrough, market-creating innovation, with a focus on smart funding, smart investment and smart regulation, to make Europe ‘the place to be’ for innovators.”