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

Holly Bolgar Jackson leaves the French food multinational's CVC arm after eight years to join the core business's enterprise strategy team.

The Canadian venture firm is opening an office in Asia as Asian corporations flock to invest in its fifth fund and largest fund.

Formed in association with US venture firm SVG Ventures, the Sunrise Fund will back early-stage agritech startups.

Verizon's corporate venture arm has stopped making investments and its lead executives have left the company, GCV understands.

After rejoining Hearst Ventures in July, Gabby Munoz was tasked to make fintech deals at the US media firm’s ratings agency subsidiary.

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

Hina Dixit, formerly a partner at M12 and head of AI investments at Samsung Next, is co-founding a startup still in stealth mode.

The CVC unit has formed a second $500m fund, having invested in two dozen artificial intelligence startups, including Anthropic, Mistral and Cohere, in the past 18 months.

Ionel Nechiti joined Saudi Aramco’s CVC subsidiary’s North American team led by managing directors Jim Sledzik and Daniel Carter.