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BCR Seed Starter will invest about $545,000 per deal in startups working on banking processes, portfolio services and ESG initiatives.

Access Industries, GV and Coinbase Ventures all took part in one of the year's biggest Web3 funding rounds.

Most VC-backed funding rounds in Texas have historically been early stage startup financings.

China-based CVCs have returned to backing large startup financing rounds, helping to boost deal volume in China as foreign investors exit the country.

The $53bn US incentive package has so far had less impact on the semiconductor industry than expected. But as generative AI unleashes a wave of investment in new types of chipmakers, the act will influence where the money goes.

The corporate venture capital unit will invest in a fund run by Mendoza Ventures, a VC firm focused on fintech, AI and cybersecurity.

Deal count was up in energy and transportation among an overall decline in corporate-backed venture funding.

The CVC unit’s $266m fund will focus on insurtech and fintech startups, having backed three VC funds: Mundi Ventures, Speedinvest and Dawn.

Diversity is still woefully lacking at most VC firms — and in the companies they back. Here are some ideas on how to change that from people who have done it.

Fit your technology to the current energy system, get the cost of green hydrogen under $1 per kilo and understand your funders.

Funding in every other sector continues to decline but industrial startups solving climate change and logistics problems are in vogue.