Sectors

The US's $369bn climate legislation, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), promises to put the US at the forefront of the clean energy transition, but the act has its limitations.

ADP Ventures has been launched with a five-person team and will invest in technologies related to its HR software provider parent.

Tim Romero has spent most of his career in Japan as a founder, podcaster and startup investor.

The firm’s CVC unit, Visa Ventures, will lead the new fund, which will focus on B2B fintech and data technology companies.

Noam Kaiser is a venture capitalist focused in the Israeli ecosystem.

Mars' pet food and veterinary subsidiary has teamed up with Digitalis Partners to launch a second Companion Fund, following a $100m predecessor in 2018.

The biopharmaceutical CVC unit’s new initiative will back 15 seed-stage startups a year, especially those developing AI, data and digital health technologies.

The week saw two billion-dollar rounds for the first time since the 2021 boom, but Anthropic and Rox Motor typify the top of a market increasingly concentrated in two areas.

The one-year-old $250m fund recently launched an accelerator to focus on early-stage companies that increase the efficiency of water in construction.

Nationwide Children's Hospital and seed-stage venture studio Rev1 are partnering to invest in a dozen healthtech startups over five years.

From technology that studies cosmic rays to measure soil moisture to a system that can turn air into water, we look at the most promising new startups in the water tech sector.