After spending two years as an investment associate at Kairos, Topher Price will now serve as senior associate at MS&AD Ventures.

BCR Seed Starter will invest about $545,000 per deal in startups working on banking processes, portfolio services and ESG initiatives.

Access Industries, GV and Coinbase Ventures all took part in one of the year's biggest Web3 funding rounds.

The corporate venture capital unit will invest in a fund run by Mendoza Ventures, a VC firm focused on fintech, AI and cybersecurity.

The CVC unit’s $266m fund will focus on insurtech and fintech startups, having backed three VC funds: Mundi Ventures, Speedinvest and Dawn.

The 12-week programme will start with five startups focused on decentralised commerce, marketing, advertising, payment and the metaverse.

Insurance industry veteran Tom Hoad will lead the collaborative industry initiative.

Turkey has the ingredients to be a top tech market, but it needs investors to take more risk if its startups are to get past early stage.

The firm’s CVC unit, Visa Ventures, will lead the new fund, which will focus on B2B fintech and data technology companies.

The digital asset software producer plans to make between one and two investments a month out of its AQN Digital Ventures Fund, having backed seven startups so far.