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BP venture builder Graham-Yooll departs
Ollie Graham-Yooll is heading to The Utopia Studio after four years as principal venture builder at BP's Omni-Sci Labs incubator.
Dec 12, 2025$28m fund launches to back Indian Institute of Technology Bombay spinouts
The Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, an incubator for IIT Bombay, formed the fund to fill a gap in investment for early-stage deep tech.
Dec 10, 2025Corporate investment in startups rises as firms race to catch robotics trend
Entire sub-sectors ranging from autonomous vehicles to healthcare provision to wealth management saw at least double the corporate-backed funding rounds of the same month last year.
Dec 8, 2025Japanese ecommerce services firm NE to invest in startups
The ecommerce services and software company plans to invest in five startups a year as it looks to build an ecosystem around its products.
Dec 5, 2025Google teams up with VC firm Accel for Indian AI fund
Google's AI Futures Fund is partnering with Accel's Atoms pre-seed fund to invest up to $2m in each Indian artificial intelligence startup.
Nov 25, 2025National Taiwan University launches $30m fund to kickstart local innovation
Taiwan's oldest university has tapped graduates to invest in its first investment fund.
Nov 25, 2025Seah joins VC arm of Malaysian hotel and casino group Genting
Wei Cong Seah will invest globally in early and growth-stage startups in technologies aligned with Genting Group’s diverse business lines.
Nov 17, 2025'Big in Japan' is not enough — where are Japan's global startups?
The country has created 25,000 startups — but can it turn any of these into global champions? That is the next challenge for the government and investor community.
Nov 17, 2025Other News
Japanese telecoms group NTT launches pan-Asian venture fund
Singapore-based Synexia Ventures is a joint venture between corporate VC arm NTT Docomo Ventures and leasing and finance unit NTT Finance.
Nov 13, 2025Italian industrial group Angelini opens VC investment office in Singapore
Angelini Ventures plans to broaden its investments in healthcare startups in the Asian region.
Nov 13, 2025Cambodia’s financial services group Canadia launches VC investment arm
The CVC unit announced its launch with an investment in a last-mile-delivery startup.
Nov 12, 2025Tan leaves ST Engineering's ventures unit in London
Xin Kai Tan set up a London-based office for ST Engineering Ventures.
Nov 12, 2025Social media marketer Cyber Buzz sets up startup investment team
While on the smaller side, the Buzz Innovation investment unit will seek to help its parent connect with startups.
Nov 12, 2025Japanese pharma sales company Toho launches $65m startup investment unit
Managed by Global Brain, the new fund will mainly seek overseas startups focused on frontier biotech.
Nov 12, 2025Editor's Picks
How dominant CVCs stalled the Thai tech ecosystem
After a promising start the Thai startup ecosystem has slowed. Some say too much corporate money may have been part of the problem.
Dec 14, 2023Resistance is futile: seven superconductor companies that want to change the world
From healthcare to fusion to quantum computing to space, superconductors have the potential to revolutionise the world. And the technology is finally ready to commercialise.
Nov 6, 2023The Big Deal: Husk targets "half the planet" with its solar systems
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.
Oct 27, 2023Turkey: Can CVC remove the funding roadblocks for startups?
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.
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