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Carsten Coesfeld, CEO of Bertelsmann Investments, is one of the 100 leading corporate venturing professionals in our 2024 Powerlist.

Sony's venture arm plans to look to Europe and beyond for backers when it launches its next fund, as it expands to Africa and seeks content as well as tech.

Customer analytics platform Dunnhumby and its CVC unit will run the networking scheme to help match retail startups, partners and investors.

Consumption of sports is more fragmented and athlete-centric. This opens up some opportunities for startups and investors.

Having invested in 16 companies and scored two exits, the firm’s new investment vehicle will continue to back edtech startups.

UB Ventures’ new fund secured capital from its parent company, Wistron’s Wise Cap subsidiary, banks and other investors.

The corporates both committed further nine-figure sums to back startups in the rapidly growing Indian venture market.

Comcast NBCUniversal Lift Labs is following a theme-based strategy in 2023 with generative artificial intelligence first on the agenda.

RTL Deutschland senior VP Beate Koch has joined its new CVC arm, RTL Ventures, to focus on the consumer ecosystem in the DACH region.

Kratos Studios and Chaos Labs each secured $20m, part of a raft of rounds this week showing corporates are still backing new Web3 startups despite the FTX fallout.