Sectors

The insurer is following up a $50m first fund with a sophomore vehicle that will continue to invest in Massachusetts-based startups along with those led by black founders.

America’s Frontier Fund hired Faran Nouri, formerly global head of Lam Capital, for a role focusing on microelectronics investments.

The corporate-backed startup informs more 100,000 farmers in Latin America about precise soil and climate conditions to optimise planting.

Newly formed fund The Edgeof is set to acquire the $2bn SoftBank unit and expand its investment scope to cover the wider Asian region.

Massachusetts Mutual Life's strategic investment arm has hired Timothy Krysiek, formerly a managing director at Equinor Ventures, to co-lead its $100m Climate Tech Fund.

Robert Kaplan, formerly a director for SoftBank’s Vision Funds, has taken up a partner of Americas position.

Data from buildings could eventually yield more revenue than the buildings themselves, according to JLL Spark Global Ventures' Raj Singh

Lukasz Garbowski, investment director at Btomorrow Ventures, describes how the corporate venture unit helps its parent diversify away from tobacco.

From holograms and new collaboration platforms to dynamic pricing software, three investors told us what they are backing in the new world of work.

Grant Brown, formerly head of Williams' New Energy Ventures, has started a job as investor at decarbonisation fund 8090 Industries.

Miles Gerson, formerly senior investment director at Takeda Ventures, has been promoted to executive investment director.