Industrial

Chinese corporations are backing domestic semiconductor startups at a rate unmatched by any other country including the US.

In a slow month for corporate investment, Amazon’s investment into Anthropic accounted for a quarter of the dollars raised in corporate-backed funding rounds.

The dedicated investment team in London will source early-stage investments in AI, biotech, robotics and clean tech startups across Europe.

Michael Claes scouted for technologies at the Saudi chemicals company's CVC for more than 25 years.

Bosch Business Innovations aims to launch 20 startups by 2030, focusing on health, software-defined manufacturing and carbon capture.

The increase makes Lockheed Martin Ventures CVC's first $1bn defence tech fund, on the back of strong growth in the sector.

Sabic Ventures managing director Aruna Subramanian has moved to newly formed VC service provider Trivergent Partners.

The 166-year-old mining company sees its corporate VC arm as a structured way to access technologies, partnerships and operating models that internal R&D alone cannot deliver.

He has moved to M Ventures after leading R&D at the corporate’s electronics business

There is a broadening recognition that critical underwater infrastructure – energy cables, offshore wind connections, subsea communications networks – is both strategically vital and chronically under-protected.

Tomomi Natsume will oversee CVC operations for the Japanese conglomerate across its global teams in Asia, Europe, US and Israel.