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The Japanese financial services company has formed a joint venture with VC Global Brain to form the new startup investment funds.

Over the past 20 years, an influx of Chinese, Japanese, South Korean and Taiwanese investors into the Valley has normalised corporate investment, increased funding round sizes and heightened national security concerns for VCs.

After almost five years as vice president of corporate development and ventures for ServiceNow, Vishal Kumar Gupta is moving on to new pastures.

Michelle Taycher Nishry worked at Qualcomm and Intel before joining the data security startup.

He joins the team after stints on the investment and operational side of biotech.

Sofia Brunelli is joining CDP Venture Capital, a VC investor in Italian startups.

She will invest in early stage companies across enterprise applications and AI.

Materials analysis startup SirenOpt has recruited Hitachi Ventures and InMotion Ventures for a $6.5m round as it prepares to commercially launch next year.

The new wave of agtech startups are more savvy, more grounded and more niche than the hyped companies of previous years. It's "a great time to invest", say corporate VCs.

Jaivel plans to back strategic startups at seed stage together with VC arm of Indian academic institution IIM Ahmedabad.

All signs are looking positive for investors who have been hungering for exit opportunities for over two years.