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

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

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

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

Razorpay has launched a fund backing early-stage B2B software startups across a range of industries, with up to $1m per investment.

Rajeev Misra is formally leaving his leadership role at SoftBank's venture capital arm after seven years defined by controversy.

The US cardiovascular health research and public awareness nonprofit has launched a fund for startups tackling women's health conditions.

One of China's leading AI startups has reportedly launched a fund investing in early-stage large language model companies.

Wondering which corporate venturers have specialist investment funds for artificial intelligence? Here is the list of traditional funds and new units, offshoots and accelerators.

Naver’s accelerator arm backed two US startups last month, Claythis and YesPlz, and will continue to seek out opportunities in North America.