Siemens and Volkswagen provided $450m for the latter's Electrify America subsidiary while Leaps by Bayer helped push ReCode Therapeutics‘ series B round to $200m.

Massachusetts Mutual Life's corporate investment arm has more than doubled its available capital in just two years.

Former Experian Ventures investment director Chan Yip Pang has joined Vertex Ventures as an executive director.

GCV Powerlist mainstay Harrie Vollaard has announced his departure after five years at RFV and over two decades at its parent firm, Rabobank.

Susquehanna Growth Equity has led a $62m series B round for speech-to-text software provider Speechmatics, while Fidelity’s Eight Roads unit led digital asset data aggregator Kaiko's $53m series B.

The motor company CVC is launching its second Exploratory Fund vintage later this year.

Prosus helped B2B e-commerce platform ShopUp lift its series B round to $174m while SPIL Ventures co-led a $70m series C for trucking optimisation platform Deliveree.

SoftBank led contract management platform developer LegalForce's $102m series D round while several corporates exited logistics service provider GogoX in an $85m IPO.

A range of corporates helped hydrogen system developer Electric Hydrogen raise $198m while Shell and Chevron backed fusion energy system developer Zap's $160m series C.

Justin Choi, who had previously headed up corporate development at Go-Jek for four years, is set to do the same for Coinbase and its CVC arm in the Asia-Pacific region.