Sectors

The cinema and kabuki studio’s Shochiku Ventures subsidiary will target virtual reality and entertainment digitalisation technology developers while its sister programme, Shochiku Accelerator, is accepting submissions until August 10.

Zoom Ventures and RingCentral Ventures invested in video coaching sessions provider TaskHuman’s $20m series B round.

UT Southwestern Medical Center spinout ReCode Therapeutics has now raised a total of $200m in its series B round from investors including Osage University Partners.

Siemens and Volkswagen provided $450m for the latter's Electrify America subsidiary while Leaps by Bayer helped push ReCode Therapeutics‘ series B round to $200m.

Massachusetts Mutual Life's corporate investment arm has more than doubled its available capital in just two years.

BlackBerry Ivy Innovation Fund put up capital to advance cost savings in vehicular maintenance.

Bertelsmann India Investments is diving into a growing funding gap for early-stage startups in the country.

Former Experian Ventures investment director Chan Yip Pang has joined Vertex Ventures as an executive director.

If a CVC unit wants to bring in outside money, it needs a great track record, a unique angle and skin in the game.

GCV Powerlist mainstay Harrie Vollaard has announced his departure after five years at RFV and over two decades at its parent firm, Rabobank.

Susquehanna Growth Equity has led a $62m series B round for speech-to-text software provider Speechmatics, while Fidelity’s Eight Roads unit led digital asset data aggregator Kaiko's $53m series B.