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Saemin Ahn spent nearly 10 years with Rakuten's CVC as managing partner;. He rejoined in February following a two-year spell with VC 500 Global.
After a series of exits, India-focused investors are ready to fund the next round of startups. This time the money will go to more hard tech areas.
Investor interest in self-driving cars is booming again as commercial services have started operating. These are some of the opportunities that are emerging.
MassMutual Ventures is unifying its regional teams as Ryan Collins and Anvesh Ramineni depart from their role running its Europe and Asia Pacific fund.
January 2025 saw 53 corporate-backed startup exits, marking a 47% year-on-year increase and the highest total since early 2023, with deal values soaring to $4.52bn.
The gas utility will back startups in food and agriculture, wellness, real estate and tourism as it seeks to use corporate VC to expand its business.
A decade after forming real estate developer Mitsui Fudosan's CVC arm, Takeshi Kodama is set to take over at Japan's JERA Ventures.
The Japanese industrial conglomerate raised a fourth, $400m fund, which will focus on AI, frontier tech and push further into India.
Yanmar Ventures invests in deep tech startups in agri-, bio, food and climate tech.
Takeshi Munemasa worked in various corporate development roles at Japan's Norinchukin Bank before taking on his new role.
DeepSeek's cut-price generative AI offering makes it a direct rival to OpenAI and its US peers, but it's far from alone. Here are some alternative startups from outside the US that have received corporate backing.
JLR is the latest company to establish venture clienting partnerships with startups in the Indian market.
A 10-year veteran of NTT Docomo ventures, Hermanowicz is now a managing director in the Silicon Valley office.
Its reputation of political neutrality — and strength in life sciences — is making Singapore a favoured launchpad for western investors and Chinese startups.
After a promising start the Thai startup ecosystem has slowed. Some say too much corporate money may have been part of the problem.
Husk Power Systems has just raised $100m from investors including Shell to build 1,500 solar mini-grids in India and Nigeria in the next four to five years.
Turkey has the ingredients to be a top tech market, but it needs investors to take more risk if its startups are to get past early stage.
The corporates both committed further nine-figure sums to back startups in the rapidly growing Indian venture market.
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