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?

Yin will raise a fund to back deep tech developed at university labs in her new role.

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.

Karim Menn has left Commerzbank's CVC unit after nearly five years to join a German B2B technology VC firm Wunderland Capital.

London-based Mariella joined Sony Ventures in 2017 and as part of his role was a board observer for What3Words.

Murphy moves from The Coca-Cola Company to Greycroft to lead global strategic relationships.

Xiaoming Yin, the third member to join Lockheed Martin's corporate venture fund, is departing having led 20 investments for the unit in eight years.

Shaw was vice president of M&A at Synchrony Ventures before working in institutional VC.

PJ Amini, senior director of venture investments, agriculture, at Leaps by Bayer, is one of our top 50 Emerging Leaders in corporate venturing for 2025.

Ruslan Bekbulatov, investment principal at Bosch Ventures, is one of our top 50 Emerging Leaders in corporate venturing for 2025.