Sectors

The Japanese electronics producer named Kwame Koranteng an investment manager for its CVC arm, representing its first Africa-based investor.

With a focus on hardware, the unit sees huge opportunity to help its parent company develop cleantech assets.

Ian McClure is expanding his role from associate vice president for research, innovation and economic impact at the University of Kentucky to include vice president of innovation for UK Healthcare, the institution's health system.

The new merged company will be known as Cerity Partners Ventures.

Michael Buzzo has taken a portfolio strategy role at the Australian mining group.

Hina Dixit, formerly a partner at M12 and head of AI investments at Samsung Next, is co-founding a startup still in stealth mode.

The CVC unit has formed a second $500m fund, having invested in two dozen artificial intelligence startups, including Anthropic, Mistral and Cohere, in the past 18 months.

Korean beauty brands have become worldwide hits and investors are flocking to the sector. This is how Signite Partners is staying ahead of the game.

Ionel Nechiti joined Saudi Aramco’s CVC subsidiary’s North American team led by managing directors Jim Sledzik and Daniel Carter.

We’re entering a new age of highly personalised and democratised financial services, says Fidelity International Strategic Ventures’s Alokik Advani, but we still want our hands held.

Kyocera, the Japanese industrial ceramics and electronics multinational, has established a second fund to target startups in the US and EMEA region.