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Yamaha Motor Ventures & Lab has shuffled its management, with Hiroshi Saijou moving to chairman and George Kellerman taking on his CEO and managing director roles.

We present you three charts that summarise some of the major trends and highlights in corporate venturing from 2018 and years prior

China-based Haier Group has provided $100m of series B funding for Cloud Constellation, the creator of a space-based cloud storage network.

Osage University Partners was among the investors to supply seed funding for robotic technology developer Elementary Robotics.

The first flotation of a ride hailing business, expected in early 2019, will give an exit to a range of corporate investors and will move this business model into public markets.

Each Friday the Global Corporate Venturing Deal Net rounds up the week’s smaller deals and tracks the emerging companies accessing corporate funds.

In the second half of our guide to corporate venturing's biggest trends in 2018, we look at the growth of Chinese tech companies, genomics, advances in transport tech and the growth of the scooter rental space.

Purdue University-backed Elevate Purdue Foundry Fund has picked seven university-linked businesses to share a total of $200,000 in funding.

Synspective has been backed by a University of Tokyo VC vehicle in its bid to launch a constellation of 25 small Earth observation satellites powered by synthetic aperture radar.

In part one of our 2018 trends round up, we examine the ubiquity of SoftBank's Vision Fund, the increased willingness of unicorns to go public, and increased activity in the crypto and agriculture spaces.

The GV-backed spacecraft launcher is reportedly set to raise $500m from Baillie Gifford and its existing investors at a $30.5bn valuation.