IT

Lam Capital’s fourth semiconductor startup competition aims to accelerate development of the underlying infrastructure to make AI run faster and more efficiently.

Databricks is itself still raising venture capital money but has at the same time built a portfolio of more than 50 startups to strengthen its market position.

OpenAI joined Anthropic, Waymo and Databricks in a group of rounds that shattered previous funding records, taking CVC investment to new heights.

The $110bn raised by the AI developer came entirely from corporates, a sign of how big tech is funding the mega-growth at the top of the market.

Workday’s ventures arm is using partnerships — not just capital — to secure access to the most compelling AI innovations.

Wang has joined Nuvini, a company that buys software as a service companies in Latin America to help them grow internationally.

The new fund, called B8 Fund-I, is the company’s first focused vehicle for investing in later-stage companies.

Quantum computers will be able to crack encrypted data within seconds. Corporate investors, particularly telecoms companies, are now actively investing in technologies that can protect them.

AI agents have made keeping track of IT activities far harder. Identity verification software company JumpCloud views CVC as a way to overcome that.

Europe's AI opportunity lies in the application layer — particularly with agentic AI — but a lack of capital means the continent could lose out.

Qualcomm Ventures' new Strategic AI Venture Fund will target AI technologies across automotive, robotics, IoT and mobile-focused startups.