The $11.4m fund will be co-managed by M&A consultancy Paradigm Shift, and it is part of the funeral firm’s 70th anniversary business plan.

PanasonicWell appointed Christie Pitts to identify family-oriented investment, partnership and M&A opportunities.

The Bakery will help clients build CVC strategies while Staged Ventures will manage the funds and Pipe Ventures will provide deal flow.

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

Kuroneko Innovation Fund 2 has $51.5m in capital to continue to invest in strategic areas like cleantech, spacetech, fintech, robotics and AI.

The new fund has already made nine investments in growth-stage companies.

After a year and a half, Bianca Ambrosini is now an investment associate at German alcohol producer Mast-Jägermeister’s CVC subsidiary.

The image sharing platform’s accelerator scheme was renamed Pinterest Inclusion Fund to target diverse business owners.

The UK's largest business services group is discontinuing its corporate venture capital arm after the parent company reported financial losses in 2023.

Takeshi Kodama, formerly executive manager at Mitsui Fudosan’s CVC unit, will now lead the property developer’s business development team.