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For eight years, Cyber Valley has been linking German AI and robotics researchers and spinouts with corporate partners, but a partnership with UTokyo IPC is the first step to it going global.

CVC veteran Takuya Hosomura, who spent a combined eight years at Rakuten Capital and Salesforce Ventures, joined Global Brain as a partner.

Corporate funding for startups is rising globally as well, with sectors such as as cybersecurity and healthcare seeing the most activity.

Cisco’s artificial intelligence fund is double the size of similar initiatives for Salesforce Ventures and IBM Ventures, hailing another step in the AI boom.

Aramco Ventures believes generative AI will be part of helping the Saudi oil major meet its 2050 net zero target.

The AI accelerator jointly created by Nvidia, Tribe and Digital Industry Singapore will choose 15 Singaporean startups for its first cohort.

The Databricks AI Fund is the second fund at Databricks Ventures.

SC Ventures, the innovation arm of Standard Chartered bank, has gone big on building its own startups. It has launched more than 15 so far and always has a pipeline of 30 projects.

Only 6% of large Canadian corporations invest in startups — and most of their spending is directed abroad, according to a new survey by Deloitte Ventures.

Cities are already smart, just not connected. It's here that there is a big opportunity for CVC investors to get involved.

Not doing follow-on investments will ruin a corporate investor’s reputation — and that of their portfolio company too. Here’s how to avoid that situation.