Large life sciences deals and corporate investors buying the companies in their own portfolio have been key to an improving exit market.

Bosch has returned to anchor the $206m second fund for its Chinese corporate VC arm, following a $155m debut fund three years ago.

Amazon has increased the size of its Smbhav Venture Fund to $350m and will invest in companies digitising the production of goods.

The Japanese shipping giant has opened a CVC office in India as the country increasingly becomes a strategic target for shipping companies.

There was a 62% jump in exits for corporate-backed startups in November, with IPOs and acquisitions across a range of geographies and sectors but also some notable bankruptcies.

De-Sign Capital Fund 1 already made an investment in Any, an AI-based enterprise insight management platform producer.

Siemens Energy Ventures’ new members are Munich-based Max Fleischer, Dubai-based Madhu Basu and Berlin-based Mandy Philipp.

Like the first edition, Mitsui Kinzoku-SBI Material Innovation Fund II will be jointly managed by CVC-as-a-service group SBI Investment.

Palida Artispong is moving up at financial services firm Krungsri's corporate venture capital arm, promoted to acting managing director.

The Japanese aerial survey firm’s corporate venturing unit will invest in spatial information and decarbonisation technologies.