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Smyth leaves Microsoft’s startup investment unit
Andrew Smyth is joining Hedosophia as partner after just over a year at M12.
Sep 10, 2025Kim leaves chip equipment maker Applied Materials CVC
Gil Kim spent six years at Applied Materials in business development and investor roles.
Sep 8, 2025Ananth joins Hitachi to lead India VC investments
Radhika Ananth, formerly a vice president of VC firm Accel, has joined the Japanese conglomerate's CVC unit to lead India investments.
Sep 3, 2025Quantum breakthroughs lead to surge in corporate funding for the sector
GCV's data shows that corporate-backed quantum computing funding rounds have leapt up following breakthroughs at the world's largest labs.
Sep 2, 2025How Intel lost touch with its investment arm
How could Intel Capital, a world leading investment unit, have created more than $170bn in market value from investing in more than 1800 companies, and still not be able to steer its parent through market disruptions?
Aug 28, 2025Banks scramble to meet stablecoin disruption
As stablecoins threaten to redesign the financial system, banks are getting ready — but will they be outpaced by the vast investments crypto exchanges have made in the technology?
Aug 27, 2025Parks to head investments at Figma
Parks has been made head of the newly-public web design company's venture unit as it tries to capitalise on improvements in AI technology.
Aug 22, 2025GCV data shows the AI boom is at the expense of enterprise…
AI startups command gargantuan valuations. The flip side is that investment has been sucked away from enterprise software.
Aug 21, 2025Cutting-edge startups emerging from the UK's less-famous universities
Six spinout technologies — from lab-grown meat to satellite tech — that have come from UK universities usually overlooked by investors.
Aug 20, 2025Microsoft hires new managing partner for VC fund
Peter Lenke, former head of Atlassian Ventures, joins the M12 team to focus on AI, enterprise and the application layer.
Aug 19, 2025Quantum is as big as AI for IBM, says its head of…
Emily Fontaine says IBM Ventures is targeting quantum software as its parent looks to build an ecosystem that includes startups and universities.
Aug 19, 2025Corporate-backed funding for startups reaches highest level in years
Increases in corporate-backed funding rounds in IT and industrial startups have driven dealmaking to a post-tech investment boom high in July.
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The CVC Funding Round DatabaseWhich corporates are backing which startups? Search our corporate deal database.The CVC Funding Round Database
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