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The heavily subscribed Urban Company IPO marks an upward turn in the Indian IPO market – and corporates are eager to see profitable exits.

Several corporates just helped Figure close robotics' first $1bn round, and the rapidly growing sector is attracting some of the same CVC investors as AI.

The billion dollar plus funding raise for French AI startup Mistral could signal Europe's AI sector is catching up with the US.

The Whataventure Fund will build companies that corporates can gain strategic insight from and also invest in at later stages.

With one eye on the future, the AI chipmaker has signalled a strong commitment to quantum computing as the sector draws investor interest.

The AI infrastructure provider's share price jumped as it announced the formation of corporate venture unit CoreWeave Ventures.

Andrew Smyth is joining Hedosophia as partner after just over a year at M12.

Gil Kim spent six years at Applied Materials in business development and investor roles.

Radhika Ananth, formerly a vice president of VC firm Accel, has joined the Japanese conglomerate's CVC unit to lead India investments.

GCV's data shows that corporate-backed quantum computing funding rounds have leapt up following breakthroughs at the world's largest labs.

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?