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.

Dubbed Iidabashi Cross Partners and led by Masaki Hasegawa, the fund will invest in back-office software developers.

The veteran of the Japanese semiconductor and display equipment company is leaving the CVC unit he restarted in 2011.

Joseph Tou and Simone Lavizzari left the Japanese conglomerate's CVC unit, the latter having taken up an investment manager role at Join Capital.

Overseas investment is flowing into Japan's startup sector, but it is still small compared with other countries' ecosystems.