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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, 2025

Kim leaves chip equipment maker Applied Materials CVC

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

Sep 8, 2025

Ananth 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, 2025

Quantum 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, 2025

How 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, 2025

Banks 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, 2025

Parks 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, 2025

GCV 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, 2025

Cutting-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, 2025

Microsoft 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, 2025

Quantum 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, 2025

Corporate-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.

Aug 8, 2025
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