Financial

Brazil’s central bank is great at working with innovative technology, and hopefully others in LatAm will follow suit, says Torq’s Thiago Iglesias.

There was a 62% jump in exits for corporate-backed startups in November, with IPOs and acquisitions across a range of geographies and sectors but also some notable bankruptcies.

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

After nearly seven years at BNP Paribas's strategic investment arm, founding managing director Thibaut Schlaeppi is leaving to co-lead Raise Ventures.

Palida Artispong is moving up at financial services firm Krungsri's corporate venture capital arm, promoted to acting managing director.

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

Razorpay has launched a fund backing early-stage B2B software startups across a range of industries, with up to $1m per investment.

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.

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.