Startups

In the run-up to the float, Porche's investment arm had invested in 18 companies, from hypercars to EV batteries and even bikes.

Jim Gable has returned to lead Chevron Technology Ventures at a time when the energy sector has many conflicting priorities.

The UK government aims to leverage institutional investment including potentially in corporate vehicles.

Mayank Taneja, the new vice-president of OSF Ventures, takes a deep dive with GCV into the way his team works.

Beauty treatments, medical procedures and personalisation are blending together, with China at the forefront of these key trends.

Corporate investors have a new financial incentive to invest in renewables and climate technologies that often proved economically unviable in the past.

Instead of buying Figma for $20bn Adobe might have been better served by expanding its CVC programme. A deal to take out one competitor is standard business practice but doesn’t fix Adobe’s burning platform.

Telecoms companies had 91 exits for their portfolio companies last year, with an estimated total value of $50bn.

Telecoms investment funds had a boom in 2014-16 which has not been repeated since. But 2021 saw signs of an uptick with telcos in emerging markets creating investment funds.