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AI, robots and space boosted corporate investment activity in November

Another big tech AI investment has skewed the month's total, but underneath lies strong dealmaking in industrial startups and growth in Japan.

Dec 5, 2024

Japanese office design company De-Sign starts CVC

De-Sign Capital Fund 1 already made an investment in Any, an AI-based enterprise insight management platform producer.

Dec 4, 2024

Mitsui Mining and Smelting launches $33m investment fund

Like the first edition, Mitsui Kinzoku-SBI Material Innovation Fund II will be jointly managed by CVC-as-a-service group SBI Investment.

Dec 3, 2024

Japan's geospatial tech group Asia Air Survey launches investment unit

The Japanese aerial survey firm’s corporate venturing unit will invest in spatial information and decarbonisation technologies.

Dec 2, 2024

Japanese software company PCA starts $13m CVC unit

Dubbed Iidabashi Cross Partners and led by Masaki Hasegawa, the fund will invest in back-office software developers.

Dec 2, 2024

Corporate-backed funding rounds spike in October

Multi-billion dollar funding rounds for OpenAI and Waymo lifted the dollar value of CVC-backed rounds to levels last seen in 2022. But there's an underlying rise in deal numbers, too.

Nov 7, 2024

Saudi Aramco's Wa'ed investment unit reserves $100m for AI deals

The petroleum producer's $500m venture fund wants to back startups that can help Saudi Arabia become an artificial intelligence tech hub in the Middle East.

Oct 28, 2024

Crypto VC Gate Ventures and blockchain firm Movement Labs form $20m fund

The initiative, also backed by Thai family office VC Boon Ventures, will target blockchain projects specialised in Move, the programming language by Movement Labs.

Oct 14, 2024

Brazilian university operator Grupo Integrado launches CVC

Formed in partnership with accelerator Founders Club, the CVC announced its first investment in embedded finance platform Baasic.

Oct 4, 2024

Pangaea Ventures on the hunt for Asian deeptech with new $85m fund

The Canadian venture firm is opening an office in Asia as Asian corporations flock to invest in its fifth fund and largest fund.

Sep 30, 2024

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