Mike Locker will oversee the home improvement product retailer’s new investment arm.

US-listed hardware retailer Home Depot has formed a $150m corporate venture capital (CVC) arm dubbed Home Depot Ventures to identify and back customer experience and home improvement startups. Home Depot has already backed a number of startups such as internet-of-things software platform Afero, freight automation service Loadsmart and Roadie, the delivery service provider that was…

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Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.