Financial

Keeping the investment committee small and lean appears to be the norm and c-suite executives are usually included.

Lucas Fornoff, formerly an investment manager at Evonik Venture Capital, will manage venture investments at Rentenbank.

Some 44% of respondents said politics was their biggest worry about investing in China, followed by the difficulty of hiring a local team.

Oil and gas companies' profits have risen more than five-fold in the last two years. But investment activities are increasing more slowly.

Startups are always anxious to know if their investors can provide follow-on funding. The good news is, corporate investors a putting aside good reserves for this.

SoftBank helped the on-demand laundry service push its valuation past $250m, a rare occurrence in a sector that's so far failed to catch fire.

After two years heading up HSBC's early-stage investments, Catherine Zhou is moving to a CIO position focusing on wealth and private banking.

Corporate investors must not lose sight of who they are serving, ie the startup, Jim Adler, head of Toyota Ventures told the GCV audience in Tokyo.

Failure rates are high for VC-backed companies, and corporate-backed startups are not exempt. But which have been the biggest recent flops that left corporate investors licking their wounds?

Corporate investors are backing a host of elder-care startups, from those seeking Parkinson's cures to apps aiding mental wellbeing.

Cures for HIV and blurred vision and using cosmic rays to monitor nuclear waste drums are on our list of recent promising university spinouts.