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As international music audiences enjoy the rise of Afrobeats, Sony Ventures is looking at whether African music, film, games and animation offer investment opportunities.

Fit your technology to the current energy system, get the cost of green hydrogen under $1 per kilo and understand your funders.

Funding in every other sector continues to decline but industrial startups solving climate change and logistics problems are in vogue.

Western governments have increased scrutiny of companies that have links with China. These are the corporate venture capital units with the biggest concentrations of Chinese investments.

The 12-week programme will start with five startups focused on decentralised commerce, marketing, advertising, payment and the metaverse.

Ben Jacobs of Companion Fund, flush with $300m from Mars, is going against the grain and betting bigger on startups as others pull back.

Brazil's corporate venturing units are mostly less than 3 years old but have been set up in a way that maximises chances of success.

Latin America not only has a rapidly growing corporate venturing ecosystem but very active cohort of female practitioners.

HR software provider Employment Hero has scored a unicorn valuation as it looks to strengthen its international presence - and Seek could have the ideal CVC profile to help.

The number of corporate-backed funding rounds continued to decline in Q3, but September saw a sharp jump in the value of deals. Large deals are back, too.

MSW Capital's Richard Zeiger joins the pod to talk about its multi-corporate LP approach and why it rejects the CVC-as-a-service label.