Caterpillar Ventures is hiking its deal sizes as it looks to capitalise on growing interest in mining technology, unit head Mark Crawford tells us.

A new $35m fund will be managed by external venture studio High Alpha Innovation and will work with the university on creating new startups.

Daniel Correa and Ajey Kaushal, formerly senior associates at JLL Spark, have been promoted to principals.

James Loftus reveals the seven areas where the PayPal Ventures team is keen to make investment in startups.

Sid Siddeek has turned Nvidia's NVentures into one of the world's most active CVCs, and he says drug development is just one area AI will transform.

The snack producer’s renewed CVC unit will focus on investing in more mature food businesses for eventual acquisitions.

A few months after LG Tech Ventures lifted its capital to $768m, the parent firm has backed Vista to seek AI, bio and automotive companies.

He will oversee the cloud data management automation platform’s strategic investments.

Jim Deane has been appointed director of the University of Hawai’i’s Office of Innovation and Commercialization, seeing him return to his alma mater after more than two decades.

Deepak Mishra, who was part of CSAA and MS&AD’s respective CVC units, will focus on data and AI in his principal role at Hitachi Ventures.