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The next step in AI is creating agents that can run multi-step tasks for us, from sales outreach to diary management. This is how investors at Microsoft's M12 are thinking about the opportunity.

The volume of CVC deals jumped 31% from a year ago, while the return of large deals pushed up the value of funding rounds by 167%.

Okta Ventures' Austin Arensberg says cybersecurity startups need a new strategy from series B onwards if they want a profitable exit.

The Japanese industrial conglomerate raised a fourth, $400m fund, which will focus on AI, frontier tech and push further into India.

Giallorenzo launched and managed BlackBerry's corporate VC unit, Blackberry Ivy Innovation Fund.

The number of corporate investors has tripled in the last decade and they are now part of one in every six startup funding rounds.

DeepSeek's cut-price generative AI offering makes it a direct rival to OpenAI and its US peers, but it's far from alone. Here are some alternative startups from outside the US that have received corporate backing.

Wasti led venture investments at HPE Pathfinder Ventures for almost four years.

Chris Young spent more than four years at M12.

He joins the new VC firm after two years at Microsoft’s M12 unit.

The new US Trump administration's policies will likely lead to far-reaching changes in health, defence, crypto, semiconductor and energy sectors.