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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.

The first half of 2025 saw a 44% jump in the number of corporate-backed startup funding rounds in Africa.

Reed originally co-founded the unit as the investment arm of American Family Insurance in 2013.

Mpako set up the unit in 2021 and has seen the team build more than 12 companies, many of which have partnerships with Old Mutual.