Spotlight on diversity: Comment from Kiran Malhotra, director of VC relationships at Fenwick & West and Tracy Isacke, managing director of corporate relationship management at Silicon Valley Bank

Making use of the joint support offered by seed funds and established companies

Teddy Himler, Comcast Ventures, discusses the rise of CVC

Andrew Gaule talks to Iain Bomphray, chief technology specialist at Williams Advanced Engineering

Last week, Ant Financial, the financial services affiliate spun off by New York-listed, China-based e-commerce group Alibaba, agreed to invest $200m in Kakao Pay.

Armed with A$100m of capital from its sole limited partner, financial services firm Westpac, Australia-based Reinventure is pioneering its own model of fintech corporate venturing.

Stephanie Stehman of Osage University Partners takes on the gender gap in academic entrepreneurship in this guest comment.

Joe Saijo, managing director of Recruit Strategic Partners (RSP), the US-based corporate venturing unit of Japan-headquartered human resources (HR) provider Recruit Holdings, spoke to reporter Kaloyan Andonov about automation, artificial intelligence (AI) and the impact of disruptive drivers in the services sector.