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Sector focus: Transport

The astonishing development of the private capital markets for fast-growing companies in the past five years is easy to record but only when put against public markets does the transformation in liquidity become apparent.

Rob Lavine, News editor for Global Corporate Venturing, reviews the trends in venturing from 2018

In our annual survey of corporate venturing industry leaders, we asked what were the most important trends in 2017 and sought their insights into the big opportunities of 2018.

Smart car maker Byton seeks to raise another $500m after having raised a $500m corporate-backed rounds last year.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

Shell, BNP Paribas and PTT Group have all made commitments to the third fund to be raised by energy-focused VC firm Set Ventures, which is targeting an $85.5m close.

Shell Ventures investment principal Tyler Williams has joined Natural Gas Innovation Fund as an executive committee member.

Evergy has rebranded corporate venturing affiliate from GXPI to Evergy Ventures following a 2018 between component utilities Great Plains and Westar Energy.

The EV charging management software provider has secured funding in a round co-led by Centrica that also featured CEZ's Inven Capital.

India-based vehicle marketplace CarDekho closed a $110m CapitalG-backed round in the beginning of January, being the first notable deal for this year in the vehicle marketplace space.