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Bharat Rajaram will serve as the managing director and head of Aflac Global Ventures.

Classic investor, former founder, expert, activist. connector and outsider — there is a broad range of ways to excel at corporate investing.

Daniel Barth and Ryan McCrackan have been promoted from senior associates to principals at Yamaha Motor Ventures.

From having a business development professional on a startup's board to making sure the corporate's sales force are motivated to sell a portfolio company's product, here six things that startups value in their corporate investors.

Four companies raised over $700m in February as a burgeoning crypto sector continued to help Singapore buck the bear market and pharma companies resparked IPOs in the US.

Corporate investors are disproportionately involved in the biggest funding rounds by energy sector startups.

Chris Eso, formerly VP of M&A and portfolio manager at Medtronic, will lead the medical device group’s corporate venture capital initiatives.

More corporate investors choose to invest in academic research. But it requires much different skills to investing in later-stage startups.

Basel has quietly built a life sciences ecosystem that’s becoming hard to ignore.

Some 54% of the dollars invested in generative AI startups last year came from funding rounds involving corporate investors. Stock markets are rewarding big corporate gen AI spenders handsomely.

From appointing an independent advisory board to hiring an external management team, here are several recommendations for building internal ventures successfully.