Industrial

After nearly three decades at Sasol, Sven Godorr has joined its newly formed CVC arm, Sasol Ventures, as the venture capital technology lead.

Seed-stage investor High-Tech Gründerfonds secured backing from a range of German corporates for its fourth fund, taking its total capital under management past €1.3bn.

Siddharth Mehta and Varadharajan Ranganathan will help TDK’s CVC arm invest in cleantech, EV and industry 5.0 startups based in the country.

ABB Electrification has learned a lot about working effectively with startups in the three years since it started the Startup Challenge programme.

Startups creating defence technologies like drones, AI and hypersonics are in demand. But can they work well with big defence contractors?

Materials startups can struggle to move from early adopters to the mass market. These are the 3 main hurdles and how to overcome them.

The flow control technology provider has recruited Marco Placidi to head its open innovation arm following a stint in corporate venturing for Halma.

Investors are becoming increasingly comfortable in putting their money behind national defence.

Trumpf’s corporate VC subsidiary has hired Jens Ortgiese, a former venturing director at Stihl Group, as principal.

Corporate venturing veteran Julien Cristiani will lead Europe and Israel investments for Schneider Electric’s $1bn investment arm.