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AI, robots and space boosted corporate investment activity in November

Another big tech AI investment has skewed the month's total, but underneath lies strong dealmaking in industrial startups and growth in Japan.


Dec 5, 2024

Cummins’ India CVC head leaves to lead investment at aerospace and defence…

Ankit Harjai becomes CIO at MountTech Growth Fund after nearly two years at the CVC.

Dec 4, 2024

US defence lobbying firm JA Green’s CVC fund appoints two venture partners

Hondo Geurts and Mike Murray, both with decades of experience in the national security sector, joined Anzu-Green Critical Technologies Fund.

Dec 4, 2024

Troubled Anglo American closes startup investment unit

The embattled 117-year-old mining giant quietly axed its decarbonisation CVC team as part of a wide-ranging restructuring process.

Dec 3, 2024

Mitsui Mining and Smelting launches $33m investment fund

Like the first edition, Mitsui Kinzoku-SBI Material Innovation Fund II will be jointly managed by CVC-as-a-service group SBI Investment.

Dec 3, 2024

Japan's geospatial tech group Asia Air Survey launches investment unit

The Japanese aerial survey firm’s corporate venturing unit will invest in spatial information and decarbonisation technologies.

Dec 2, 2024

Kay Enjoji to leave Tokyo Electron investment unit

The veteran of the Japanese semiconductor and display equipment company is leaving the CVC unit he restarted in 2011.

Nov 29, 2024

Telemedicine didn't solve healthcare's funding crisis — but AI may do better

Telemedicine didn't solve the fundamental cost problem in healthcare, but new AI models may be tackling this.

Nov 20, 2024

VW investment boss' departure from Northvolt board adds to battery maker's woes

The departure of Sven Furhmann from Northvolt's board comes after a series of setbacks that have raised questions about the battery maker's future.

Nov 12, 2024

Corporate-backed funding rounds spike in October

Multi-billion dollar funding rounds for OpenAI and Waymo lifted the dollar value of CVC-backed rounds to levels last seen in 2022. But there's an underlying rise in deal numbers, too.

Nov 7, 2024

Energy companies aren't the main investors in energy startups anymore

Half of all of the energy startups raising money from corporate investors in 2024 tapped up companies outside the energy sector.

Nov 1, 2024

Japanese corporates pour money into spacetech startups

Japan is second only to the US when it comes to spacetech startups raising funding from the corporate sector.

Oct 30, 2024
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