Health

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.

Venture capital firm Bioluminescence Ventures emerges from stealth with two funds supported by institutional investors.

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.

Western governments have increased scrutiny of companies that have links with China. These are the corporate venture capital units with the biggest concentrations of Chinese investments.

Ben Jacobs of Companion Fund, flush with $300m from Mars, is going against the grain and betting bigger on startups as others pull back.

Brazil's corporate venturing units are mostly less than 3 years old but have been set up in a way that maximises chances of success.

Latin America not only has a rapidly growing corporate venturing ecosystem but very active cohort of female practitioners.

The number of corporate-backed funding rounds continued to decline in Q3, but September saw a sharp jump in the value of deals. Large deals are back, too.

After serving two years at Grifols Innovation and New Technologies, Gasol Escuer has accepted a new position at global venture firm AdBio Partners

Startups often find the UK's National Health Service hard to sell into. These three tips can stop founders falling at the first hurdle.