After leading Hero Enterprise’s startup investment activity, Varun Akhnoor is looking to grow the cement company’s footprint.

Qualcomm Ventures' new Strategic AI Venture Fund will target AI technologies across automotive, robotics, IoT and mobile-focused startups.

Igata will focus on new solutions for pre- and post-insurance processes and wellbeing, as well as a broad range of domains such as asset formation, mobility, healthcare, disaster prevention and mitigation, cybersecurity and green transformation.

The investment arm will also make investments in VC funds.

With more than $37bn invested across 444 deals, January 2026 saw corporates deploy more venture money than in almost any month in the past two years.

Nitya Agarwal was at a financial VC before joining the corporate venturing arm of Info Edge.

Neurosymbolic models, which integrate structured reasoning, rules and logical constraints into learning systems, are emerging as a critical path forward if AI is to achieve its potential in industrial applications.

While consumer tech continues to dominate corporate-backed funding rounds for Indian startups, sectors with deep tech affiliations are seeing rapid growth in India.

Masataka Otomo will be part of newly established Toyota Invention Partners, which focuses on Japanese mobility tech startups.

After two decades at Honda, Akihito Yuzuriha is taking a director role in SMBC’s new VC team.