Industrial

FTX-backed PayUp agreed to merge with IG Acquisition while multiple corporates participated in Line Man Wongnai’s $265m series B round.

The UK government aims to leverage institutional investment including potentially in corporate vehicles.

Mayank Taneja, the new vice-president of OSF Ventures, takes a deep dive with GCV into the way his team works.

This week's most interesting deals included insect-based animal feed and a system that uses kinetic energy to shoot satellites into space.

Beauty treatments, medical procedures and personalisation are blending together, with China at the forefront of these key trends.

Corporate investors have a new financial incentive to invest in renewables and climate technologies that often proved economically unviable in the past.

Novo Holdings led a $75m series C round for Kate Farms while PayU and InfoEdge Ventures participated in DotPe’s $58m series B.

Instead of buying Figma for $20bn Adobe might have been better served by expanding its CVC programme. A deal to take out one competitor is standard business practice but doesn’t fix Adobe’s burning platform.

Alphabet led a $1bn round for its life sciences unit, PTT bets on insect startup and corporate-backed Propzy is set to shut down.

Telecoms investment funds had a boom in 2014-16 which has not been repeated since. But 2021 saw signs of an uptick with telcos in emerging markets creating investment funds.