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Adding strategic value is an obvious one. But other traits are important to corporate venture capital investors too.

Funding for agricultural technology startups and deals in India increased in January, amid an overall fall in activity.

Oil and gas companies backed more startup funding rounds in 2022 than the previous year, but the dollar valuation of deals fell by more than two thirds.

Penske Media's $100m investment in Vox Media halved its valuation, as the digital media sector continues to consolidate while its companies struggle against prevailing trends.

The Japanese banking group partnered with local subsidiary Danamon for a fund that will back Indonesian startups, adding to its $300m Ganesha Fund in India.

Countries like Germany, Switzerland and Japan have benefitted from an explosive growth in capital, but the US still dominates and the UK risks being left behind, our in-depth analysis shows.

Managing director Lorrain de Silva tells us why Jägermeister's Best Nights VC fund invests in everything from dating apps to Bluetooth speakers, and why NFTs and sextech might be on the horizon.

Just 249 investments were announced in the last three months of 2022 but the year was still the second-best on record in almost every category.

Corporates continued to invest in real estate tech through 2022, unlike their traditional VC peers. We look at how this might play out.

Large corporates are investing heavily in carbon capture projects as the technology becomes ready for the mainstream.