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Nouri joins Applied Materials as global head of ventures

Faran Nouri has recently worked at the forefront of US national semiconductor investment policy at Natcast and America's Frontier Fund.


Aug 25, 2026

Wong takes over as ventures head at software company ServiceNow

She takes over from previous head Vishal Kumar Gupta who left the CVC unit in October 2025.

Aug 21, 2026

LAB7: How the venture building arm of Aramco is helping deep tech…

LAB7, the venture building arm of Aramco, has a dual mission: to help deep tech startups scale and to turn Saudi Arabia's Dhahran province into a destination for frontier entrepreneurship.

Aug 19, 2026

Micron launches $250m fund to tap critical shift in AI boom

Micron is benefiting from booming demand for the high-bandwidth memory chips needed for AI but, with competition fierce, needs to judge how physical AI and novel models will shift the market.

Aug 18, 2026

Head of Zendesk Ventures exits following workforce cutbacks

Terry Evans Jr, who set up the venture capital investment arm for the customer service software company, is leaving as part of a workforce reduction.

Aug 17, 2026

July shows gradual upward trend continuing for startup exits

Five exits in the $1bn plus category helped push up the total dollar value of exits in an otherwise quiet month.

Aug 12, 2026

Food, robots and energy deals boost corporate-backed startup funding in July

While AI technologies continued to get the largest share of funding dollars, the month saw a higher than usual amount of dollars flowing into industrial, energy and consumer tech.

Aug 7, 2026

Naver Ventures: The next AI winners will be bridges, not islands

As AI reshapes venture investing, Naver Ventures is looking beyond market hype to identify the platform shifts that will define the next generation of technology companies.

Jul 30, 2026

Okta Ventures: Betting on the new agentic AI economy

As AI agents become autonomous digital actors, Okta Ventures is betting that the biggest opportunity lies in the infrastructure built around them—not the models themselves.

Jul 22, 2026

China’s AI venture playbook is going global

China's leading technology groups are reviving the corporate venture strategies that powered the mobile internet era, this time to compete for influence over the next generation of global AI companies.

Jul 15, 2026

Mega SpaceX IPO helps boost dollar value of Q2 exits

At the halfway mark of 2026, the disclosed dollar value of corporate-backed exits is nearly double the total value raised in 2025.

Jul 15, 2026

Xu joins Citi’s corporate VC arm

As VP of venture investing, Olive Xu will focus on investments in enterprise tech and AI across North America.

Jul 9, 2026
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