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Classic investor, former founder, expert, activist. connector and outsider — there is a broad range of ways to excel at corporate investing.

Daniel Barth and Ryan McCrackan have been promoted from senior associates to principals at Yamaha Motor Ventures.

From having a business development professional on a startup's board to making sure the corporate's sales force are motivated to sell a portfolio company's product, here six things that startups value in their corporate investors.

Four companies raised over $700m in February as a burgeoning crypto sector continued to help Singapore buck the bear market and pharma companies resparked IPOs in the US.

Ana Troncoso Ceola will lead ABB Motion Ventures focused on sustainability and energy transition, which falls under the ABB Ventures umbrella.

Corporate investors are disproportionately involved in the biggest funding rounds by energy sector startups.

More corporate investors choose to invest in academic research. But it requires much different skills to investing in later-stage startups.

Steve Smith, the new head of National Grid Partners, has shifted focus to technologies that directly impact the operation of the power grid.

Basel has quietly built a life sciences ecosystem that’s becoming hard to ignore.

Some 54% of the dollars invested in generative AI startups last year came from funding rounds involving corporate investors. Stock markets are rewarding big corporate gen AI spenders handsomely.

There will not be enough rare earth metals to make the magnets industry needs in the next decade so the race is on to find alternatives.