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Catherine Lenson, the first female managing partner at Softbank, has left the corporate venture arm of the Japanese technology conglomerate.

Climate change is creating mounting insurance losses every year, creating a near-existential crisis for the industry. Can tech help?

Tencent took part in a $400m round for Skydance Media while CrowdStrike helped Vanta hike its series B to $150m.

China has a policy of superclusters to drive growth and is increasingly incorporating corporate venture capital initiatives into these clusters.

Rakuten-backed Base Food is set to list on TSE’s Growth Market in an IPO valuing it at $329m while Mitsui was part of a $400m round for Yellow Door Energy.

The value of corporate-backed deals slumped in the third quarter, but sectors like energy and telecoms bucked the trend as did a few geographies like Israel.

Such enormous losses help explain why Bytedance in January said it was dissolving its corporate venturing unit.

An overwhelming majority of respondents in our poll said they took board seats — mainly to influence and help the startups in their portfolio.

Strong branding helped give a canned water producer reach a $700m valuation while the promise of long-term energy storage fueled a $450m mega round.

Q2 Holdings has acquired National Bank of Canada and OpenText-backed Sensibill while ArcelorMittal's XCarb unit was part of Form Energy’s $450m series E round.

The sector is vulnerable to the economic downturn as lenders pull back and higher interest rates crimp borrowing. But pockets of the sector continue to attract financing.