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Corporates including Fujitsu, Mitsui Chemical, Daiwa, Hitachi and TDK have all committed to new startup investment funds since the start of 2025.
Advances in AI are opening up opportunities for underrepresented founders, says Katie Bailey at Hearst's women-focused CVC fund. But it is also making it harder to do due diligence.
April saw fewer corporate-backed startup exits than the high months of Q1 2025, due to a fall in M&A for healthcare and IT companies.
Despite uncertainty in the wider economy, April has seen the most corporate-backed startup funding rounds in more than two years.
Tai Panich has departed from the $700m CVC fund she formed in 2020 and has recruited corporate LPs for AI-focused firm AIconic Ventures.
Investors in healthcare, hardware, climate tech and defence are feeling the impact of the Trump administration's policies.
Jason McBride has joined venture capital firm AIX Ventures as partner.
Electronics manufacturer TDK's venture unit is targeting 'iconic' startups with its latest fund, seeking technologies that can define new markets.
Wonderstone Ventures will target global investments at seed and early stages.
The €80m fund will invest in startups at series A and above, targeting companies that can form commercial partnerships with Capgemini.
After five years as president of Stanley Black & Decker's corporate VC fund, Dina Routhier has moved to the newly formed Teradyne Robotics Ventures.
Venu Pemmaraju is retiring 10 years after launching IT services provider Wipro's $500m corporate VC unit with co-managing partner Biplab Adhya.
SoftBank just led a $40bn funding round into OpenAI and is backing the $500bn Stargate AI project announced by President Trump. Big bets haven't always gone well for the investment fund - is this time different?
The deal, set to make OpenAI the world's second most valuable startup, will include up to $30bn from SoftBank and quadruples the previous fundraising record.
Wondering which corporate venturers have specialist investment funds for artificial intelligence? Here is the list of traditional funds and new units, offshoots and accelerators.
UK smartphone camera component developer Cambridge Mechatronics’ latest round featured strategic investors Sony Ventures and Intel Capital.
Adequate data collection and processing are not yet in place to ensure AI-based large language models will be useful to industry.
The valuations of generative AI startups are high and the tech is still untested, but corporate investors should still take some early bets.
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