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When companies face foundational change, the corporate investment unit can often become a pathfinder for new business ideas.

Another big tech AI investment has skewed the month's total, but underneath lies strong dealmaking in industrial startups and growth in Japan.

Mast-Jägermeister's CVC is backing companies tempting people to meet in real life again.

Telemedicine didn't solve the fundamental cost problem in healthcare, but new AI models may be tackling this.

Some 37 corporate-backed startups were either acquired or taken public in October, with the total value of exits at $4.37bn, a significant rise on last year.

From the preference for face-to-face meetings to startups' over-reliance on government contracts, here are six unique aspects of investing in South Korea.

Multi-billion dollar funding rounds for OpenAI and Waymo lifted the dollar value of CVC-backed rounds to levels last seen in 2022. But there's an underlying rise in deal numbers, too.

The global drinks brand invests in early-stage startups and academic research where it can get closely involved in testing out the technologies at its operations.

Half of all of the energy startups raising money from corporate investors in 2024 tapped up companies outside the energy sector.

Japan is second only to the US when it comes to spacetech startups raising funding from the corporate sector.