Rachael Reid and Costantino Mariella spent several years as investors in corporate venture capital before moving to the UK economic development bank.

Manuel Gabel is head of venture capital at Aumovio, the automotive division of car parts maker Continental that is spinning out this month.

The leadership change comes as the European arm of Japan's SBI Holdings looks to increase its presence in the region.

AI startups command gargantuan valuations. The flip side is that investment has been sucked away from enterprise software.

Salling Seeds will back European retail, technology and sustainability startups and its first investment is in the East Jutland Innovation Fund.

Increases in corporate-backed funding rounds in IT and industrial startups have driven dealmaking to a post-tech investment boom high in July.

Rare earth metals are critical to the clean energy transition but their extraction comes at massive environmental costs. Here are six startups with solutions, from mining on the moon to microbes that extract minerals without toxins.

Pernod Ricard's CVC unit focuses on investing in non-alcoholic beverage startups that address the generational shift in drinking habits.

We head to Frankfurt this month, where DB1 Ventures' Christoph Osburg fills us in on the tech scene, the social scene, and why a church may be the biggest 'must-see'.

While the full picture might be bleak with historic issues still present, investors are opening up to practical grid innovations.