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

Brian Schettler, of AEI HorizonX, joined the Global Venturing Review podcast to talk about the reasons for its decision to become independent from parent Boeing.

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

Corporate venturing veteran Mads Møller has joined ABB Electrification as head of ventures and group vice president.

It was through crisis that Boeing’s CVC unit had to spin out nearly two years ago, but now it gets to have its cake and eat it, too.

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.

A cure for diabetes, food made from CO2 and a wound dressing that kills superbugs are all a step closer to reality thanks to these 10 spinouts.