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More than a decade after leading SEB Alliance for appliance maker Groupe SEB, François-Xavier Meyer has become VC fund Sierra Venture Capital's latest partner.

Countries like Germany, Switzerland and Japan have benefitted from an explosive growth in capital, but the US still dominates and the UK risks being left behind, our in-depth analysis shows.

Managing director Lorrain de Silva tells us why Jägermeister's Best Nights VC fund invests in everything from dating apps to Bluetooth speakers, and why NFTs and sextech might be on the horizon.

Just 249 investments were announced in the last three months of 2022 but the year was still the second-best on record in almost every category.

Corporates continued to invest in real estate tech through 2022, unlike their traditional VC peers. We look at how this might play out.

Amazon is making the team running the $1bn fund redundant as part of the more than 18,000 layoffs announced recently.

Large corporates are investing heavily in carbon capture projects as the technology becomes ready for the mainstream.

Sublime Systems raised $40m for its decarbonised cement technology as corporates like Siam Cement Group seek to cut sky-high emissions from building materials.

Defence is not an easy industry to operate or invest in, but RTX Ventures' Dan Ateya lays out how they help startups navigate it.

How do you stop AI from being racist? What if you could diagnose autism at birth using a single strand of hair? Here are 10 spinouts doing this and more.

Tech's greatest deal had been YouTube by Sequoia but the venture model has evolved with founder ambitions