Statkraft has contributed to a series B round for Aira, which is tackling a heat pump market CEO Martin Lewerth believes can reach €150bn in size every year.

Biotech venture capital is shrinking from boomtime highs, but Sakae Asanuma, CEO of Taiho Ventures, says now is a good time to find new novel treatments to back.

Payments is an area fintech investors we've spoken to see as ripe for a shake up. They're also watching for an AI crash and the direction of interest rates.

CEO Ophir Gaathon tells us why Airbus and American Express have backed Dust Identity, and how diamond dust can track data on objects through the supply chain.

Albert Mundet tells us how FC Barcelona began investing through Barça Innovation Hub in the middle of a cost-cutting exercise, and how it balances short and long-term goals.

Oz Khan heads up venture capital for ADP, which has over a million clients that portfolio companies can partner with, and he tells us why now is the right time to launch ADP Ventures.

Ben Jacobs of Companion Fund, flush with $300m from Mars, is going against the grain and betting bigger on startups as others pull back.

The one-year-old $250m fund recently launched an accelerator to focus on early-stage companies that increase the efficiency of water in construction.

Agriculture is suffering a hangover from the frothy market of two years ago but is moving towards a new, more stable equilibrium, Shubhang Shankar of Syngenta Group Ventures tells us.

The Malaysian conglomerate's CVC plans to raise external capital in the future, potentially giving foreign investors access to the Southeast Asian tech ecosystem.