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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.
Razorpay has launched a fund backing early-stage B2B software startups across a range of industries, with up to $1m per investment.
Startups are at risk of failing because artificial intelligence is rendering their business models obsolete, says Jeffrey Li, managing partner of the Chinese technology company's CVC.
Ravi Jain will lead Indian investments for TDK Ventures, the investment arm of Japanese tech company TDK.
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