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.

Aleta Knowles was a former member of the Uniseed investment committee during her time at University of New South Wales.

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.