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Mexican beverage retailer Femsa named GCV Powerlist member Javier García Quiroga director of strategic planning, with wider tasks such as M&A.

Hasenjaeger was a startup scout and investor at Viega New Ventures, the investment arm of the 125-year old, family-owned manufacturer.

De-Sign Capital Fund 1 already made an investment in Any, an AI-based enterprise insight management platform producer.

Legal technology funding has boomed in the wake of ChatGPT, and startups – and law firms – that don't use artificial intelligence are going to be left behind.

One of Vietnam's largest conglomerates, Vingroup, and its founder, have set up a new CVC unit with $50m to invest in new startups.

Formed in partnership with accelerator Founders Club, the CVC announced its first investment in embedded finance platform Baasic.

GCV Powerlist mainstay Gen Tsuchikawa left Japanese conglomerate Sony after two decades, having led its CVC unit in the past eight years.

Jan Brockhausen, previously an associate director at SevenVentures, is now a principal at Fiege Group-backed F-Log Ventures.

The new merged company will be known as Cerity Partners Ventures.