Financial

The online trading platform's Robinhood Ventures will open up its first fund, which has backed Databricks, Airwallex and Ramp, to public investors.

Igata will focus on new solutions for pre- and post-insurance processes and wellbeing, as well as a broad range of domains such as asset formation, mobility, healthcare, disaster prevention and mitigation, cybersecurity and green transformation.

Abdullah Albesher spent more than eight years at Aramco Ventures, the CVC arm of the Saudi oil company.

Trafigura's head of energy transition research and venture investment, Margaux Moore, has announced she is leaving the commodities trader.

While consumer tech continues to dominate corporate-backed funding rounds for Indian startups, sectors with deep tech affiliations are seeing rapid growth in India.

Citi Ventures, set up 15 years ago, was an early pioneer in corporate investing. This is what Arvind Purushotham, who set up the unit, has learned about bringing startups and big business together.

After two decades at Honda, Akihito Yuzuriha is taking a director role in SMBC’s new VC team.

GCV readers were drawn to stories on AI and defence as well as articles outlining how the CVC sector is changing.

Crypto-native investors such as Coinbase Ventures and Animoca Brands wrote a large number of smaller cheques while AI chipmaker Nvidia emerged as a dominant venture force, especially for large funding rounds.

Many of the new CVC units were launched by Asian corporates in Japan, China and Korea.

Joshua Lloyd-Lyons, former VP at Fidelity International Strategic Ventures, will head corporate development and M&A at portfolio company 73 Strings.