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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.