Sectors

The former manager of corporate strategy at US energy company Constellation joined the Danish renewable energy company this month.

Seed-stage investor High-Tech Gründerfonds secured backing from a range of German corporates for its fourth fund, taking its total capital under management past €1.3bn.

Keunhaeng Heo has accepted a new position at Hyundai Cradle, where he will serve as the corporate venture arm’s senior investment manager.

NGP Capital’s second fund produced six unicorns and top quartile returns while navigating significant change at Nokia, its corporate partner. Managing partner Paul Asel shares 6 insights others can take from the experience.

Siddharth Mehta and Varadharajan Ranganathan will help TDK’s CVC arm invest in cleantech, EV and industry 5.0 startups based in the country.

GCV Rising Star and former Salesforce Ventures managing partner Matthew Garratt has joined US Venture Partners as a general partner.

Kratos Studios and Chaos Labs each secured $20m, part of a raft of rounds this week showing corporates are still backing new Web3 startups despite the FTX fallout.

GCV Rising Star Steven Willinger has left the crypto platform’s CVC unit, where he helped lead venture deals.

ABB Electrification has learned a lot about working effectively with startups in the three years since it started the Startup Challenge programme.

After a year and a half at Scania’s CVC unit, Jessica Persson has taken up the head of venture capital and M&A role.

Managing partner Vijay Patel tells us why CVS Health Ventures has launched a growth fund as its parent makes a big primary care play.