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Venture firm Infinity Ventures Crypto recruited Animoca Brands and Circle on its way to closing the oversubscribed fund.

Sector review of top investors, breakdown by subsectors and breakdown by type of corporate backers

2021 year-end data analysis

In a recent poll of corporate venturing industry leaders, we asked what the most important trends were in 2021 and sought their insights into the big opportunities that 2022 may have to offer.

From September to December 2021, Global Corporate Venturing conducted its annual State of CVC survey.

SoftBank Vision Fund 2 led a $300m round for business-to-business marketplace ElasticRun and co-led blockchain creation platform developer Aleo's $200m series B.

The fund, a joint venture for Intel’s corporate venturing unit and its Intel Foundry Services subsidiary, will seek out startups developing novel semiconductor technologies.

Alphabet’s growth equity arm promoted several team members in 2021 including new general partner Jesse Wedler, Jackson Georges, James Luo, Jamie Rosen, Jeremy Zhu and Nina Gerson.

Financial services provider Tribal raised $60m in a SoftBank-led series B round while Credit Saison invested $30m in a round for peer-to-peer lender Julo sized at up to $60m.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Prosus Ventures committed capital to e-commerce finance provider Wayflyer at a $1.6bn valuation, increasing its overall funding to over $236m.