Sectors

Getting institutional, risk-averse money into crypto is no mean feat, but SC Ventures-backed Zodia Custody is working to assuage their fears.

Telus's strategic investment arm plans to extend its presence outside of Canada while continuing to bet on areas like agriculture and health.

Peijia Medical participated in JenaValve’s $100m series C round while L Catterton led Planted Foods’ series B extension, lifting it to $93m.

Tencent and Sony have provided $263m for FromSoftware while Piramal Capital & Housing Finance backed EarlySalary’s $110m series D round.

Corporate-backed investments in energy storage technology have quadrupled in value in the last quarter as energy prices soar.

Dani Shearman, who had spent nearly four years at the now-independent HorizonX, has joined a sister subsidiary, Boeing Phantom Works.

FTX and Coinbase took part in a $200m round for NFT game developer Limit Break while Schaeffler, Kingspan and Marcegaglia backed H2 Green Steel’s $190m series B.

The $7.2m Ricoh Biomedical Startup Fund was formed by the imaging technology producer to back up its recent acquisition of mRNA drug developer Elixirgen.

Applied Ventures has doubled its war chest to $100m per year and is looking to engage with materials engineering startups in a new way.

HubSpot Ventures has hired Nate Morgan after a combined six years at Springdale Ventures, Evercore and Deutsche Bank.

Bertelsmann-backed paywall management software provider Zephr is set to be acquired by Zuora in a $44m deal while Meituan co-led a $875m round for EV battery producer Sunwoda.