After launching Socium Ventures in 2023 with a $300m fund, the US conglomerate has announced a second $300m targeting tech startups.

Japan's sophisticated network of university investment funds make it an outlier among other Asian countries.

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

SETsquared's investment vehicle will fund companies that are spun out of the universities of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey.

The Danish university's VC subsidiary, PSV Foundry, set up the fund to investment in environmental sustainability companies.

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

The European venture capital firm aims to raise a total €250m for its fourth fund by next year.

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

Formed in association with US venture firm SVG Ventures, the Sunrise Fund will back early-stage agritech startups.

Verizon's corporate venture arm has stopped making investments and its lead executives have left the company, GCV understands.