Liz Rockett has departed from the healthcare group’s Kaiser Permanente Ventures unit, following in the footsteps of former senior team members Amy Belt Raimundo and Sam Brasch.

SoftBank Latin America Fund is among the investors in payment technology provider Kushki’s $186m series B round while Maruho co-led inflammatory disease drug developer Upstream's $200m series A.

Envision Group’s Envision Digital subsidiary raised $210m in series A funding while Sarnoff Corporation’s Intuity Medical spinoff will shut down at the start of July.

Investment in defence startups is at record levels this year, with Raytheon the latest to set up an investment arm. This is their strategy.

SAIC Motor and GAC Group took part in industrial software developer UniVista Industrial's $164m pre-series A round while multiple corporates helped biotech incubator Doma Biopharmaceutical raise $142m.

Q&A with Daisuke Mitani, senior director, KDDI Open Innovation Fund

Biren Technology helped provide $120m for CPU producer HJ Micro while ArcelorMittal is set to invest $100m a year through its XCarb Innovation Fund and Accelerator Programme.

Orphan CNS therapy developer Minoryx Therapeutics closed a $54.8m series C and MIT's The Engine co-led a $10.5m seed round for Foundation Alloy.

BCF Ventures’ Sergio Escobar and Bonnie Chau tell GCV what makes the Canadian innovation ecosystem unique and why it is getting brain gain from other parts of the world.

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