GCV Powerlist mainstay Jon Lauckner has announced his imminent retirement from General Motors after leading the firm's GM Ventures unit for a decade.

The spring 2020 intake of SAP.io focuses on the travel and expenses space with participants in areas including machine learning software, carbon offsetting and expense management.

Real estate fund manager Revcap provided $3.1m for accelerator and early-stage investor Pi Labs' latest fund, sized at $23m as of earlier this month.

Grab is piloting an edition of its Vietnam-facing accelerator Grab Ventures Ignite in Singapore with two startups aiming to enter the Vietnamese market.

The Japan-based plant seedling producer’s $4.7m Farm to Table Fund will invest in food and agritech startups to support the food supply chain.

Binance and its Indian subsidiary WazirX intend to provide $50m in funding for blockchain technology developers following regulatory changes in the South Asian country.

The conglomerate's corporate venturing subsidiary, set up over a year ago with a $100m investment target, has closed, apparently without striking a deal.

The third annual Global Corporate Venturing Israel conference took place in Tel Aviv on February 11 in partnership with local corporate innovation advisory firm Axis Innovation.

Repsol is among the limited partners that have committed to the venture firm’s $60m first fund, which is expected to make 10 more investments before 2022.

The Iniciativa Women Entrepreneurship scheme consists of $10.4m fund WE Ventures and a smaller development-stage vehicle called WE Impact.