Sustainability is 'critically important' in agriculture tech, but startups need to use new technologies like AI to balance it with cost reductions, say corporate VCs.

There is potential to create several $1bn-plus companies focused on products and services for older adults. But few corporate investors have this on their radar yet.

Too many corporates expect too much, too soon from their AI investments. Patience, strategic thinking and cultural change are crucial.

While universities often push their academics to be more entrepreneurial, having a professor lead a spinout decreases its chances of raising money and being acquired, according to research by Harvard associate professor Maria Roche.

While 65% of US ad spend has slipped from traditional media to the hands of Amazon, Google and Facebook, the Times of India has protected its market share on the subcontinent by investing in startups. The publishing group now wants to bring the model to the US.

Personalised treatment, combination therapies, vaccines and of course AI: pharmaceutical investors are backing a surge of new cancer technologies.

Korea has a strong roster of startups providing software for industry and large conglomerates. They are now finding markets abroad, too.

Unable to match the high salaries paid by the investment sector, university tech transfer offices are becoming creative with non-financial perks and career pathways.

Investors — particularly corporates — have increased backing for spacetech startups in the past five years. Here are the new entrants catching their eye.

Korean startups offer juicy morsels for international investors amid a tough funding climate and as the government relaxes CVC rules.