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February: M&A appetite still high for corporate-backed startups, but valuations down

Some 37 corporate-backed startups were bought in February in sectors ranging from semiconductors and skincare to pharma and robots.


Mar 11, 2025

Chinese corporations ramp up investments in AI and chips startups

There were 42 corporate-backed startup funding rounds in China in February, up 27% from the previous month. Most of these were backed by Chinese tech giants such as Tencent and Baidu.

Mar 10, 2025

Saemin Ahn rejoins Japanese tech firm Rakuten's investment unit after 2 year…

Saemin Ahn spent nearly 10 years with Rakuten's CVC as managing partner;. He rejoined in February following a two-year spell with VC 500 Global.

Mar 3, 2025

IT services group Wipro boosts its venture arm to $500m

Wipro Ventures has received a further $200m in capital from its parent company as it celebrates its tenth anniversary.

Mar 3, 2025

Snowflake expands AI accelerator programme to $200m

With the backing of multiple VCs, Snowflake is supercharging its AI investment efforts and building a new AI hub in the Bay Area.

Feb 28, 2025

India's IPO boom sets the scene for a wave of deeptech investment

After a series of exits, India-focused investors are ready to fund the next round of startups. This time the money will go to more hard tech areas.

Feb 26, 2025

How to invest in the second wave of autonomous driving

Investor interest in self-driving cars is booming again as commercial services have started operating. These are some of the opportunities that are emerging.

Feb 21, 2025

Danny Boisson joins AMD's investment arm

Boisson will be on the portfolio development team at AMD Ventures.

Feb 19, 2025

Corporates rush to invest in AI agents

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.

Feb 12, 2025

Corporate-backed startup funding levels at two-year high

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%.

Feb 10, 2025

Booming cybersecurity sector faces an exit problem, says Okta's CVC head

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

Feb 6, 2025

Hitachi ups startup investment to $1bn as AI wave grows

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

Feb 5, 2025
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