Sectors

Trumpf’s corporate VC subsidiary has hired Jens Ortgiese, a former venturing director at Stihl Group, as principal.

Brian Schettler, of AEI HorizonX, joined the Global Venturing Review podcast to talk about the reasons for its decision to become independent from parent Boeing.

Yamaha Motor's sophomore Exploratory Fund brings the amount it has committed to corporate VC to $300m in the past five years.

Former senior director Breton Birkhofer has taken a managing director role at DivcoWest where he will focus on early-stage real estate and construction technology.

Corporate venturing veteran Julien Cristiani will lead Europe and Israel investments for Schneider Electric’s $1bn investment arm.

UBS and Goldman Sachs were part of a $23m round for Droit, which is expanding its regulatory compliance product to wealth management in a risk-conscious financial sector.

Corporate venturing veteran Mads Møller has joined ABB Electrification as head of ventures and group vice president.

The "edutainment" company will use the new money to expand to new markets and bring more high-profile experts to give masterclasses.

It was through crisis that Boeing’s CVC unit had to spin out nearly two years ago, but now it gets to have its cake and eat it, too.

RTL Deutschland senior VP Beate Koch has joined its new CVC arm, RTL Ventures, to focus on the consumer ecosystem in the DACH region.

Salesforce is integrating generative artificial intelligence across its customer relationship management platform and its venture unit is getting in on the act.