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GLP-1 drugs turn weight loss clinics into investment opportunities
Clinics offering wraparound care for people taking weight loss drugs have become high-growth businesses, attractive to investors.
Jan 23, 2025Nine recycling tech startups to watch
From nuclear waste recycling to making T-shirts out of plastic bottles, here are nine of the most interesting new companies in the recycling sector.
Jan 21, 2025What the Trump administration means for corporate venturers
The new US Trump administration's policies will likely lead to far-reaching changes in health, defence, crypto, semiconductor and energy sectors.
Jan 20, 2025How investors can build a great platform team: 6 tips
From finding startup champions at the corporate parent to having a pot of money to test technologies, here are steps for building a successful portfolio development team.
Jan 17, 202512 groundbreaking global university spinouts that raised funding in 2024
Our pick of spinout technologies that are breaking new ground in plastics recycling, data storage, photonics, semiconductor materials and decoding the genome.
Jan 8, 2025A new US president and the data centre boom will boost the…
Corporate VCs expect the needs of AI data centres and US deregulation to boost energy funding, with grid tech and nuclear among the winners.
Jan 6, 20258 tips for investing in Japan’s university spinouts
Japan has a well-funded and vibrant market for deep tech companies spun out of its universities. Here are some of the quirks that foreign investors seeking to dip a toe into the sector should look out for.
Jan 2, 2025CVC's most active investors in 2024 - and how they invested
GCV has looked through our data to find the busiest investors in corporate venture capital. Here's how and where they invested in 2024.
Jan 1, 2025Big exits returned in 2024 as corporates bought portfolio companies
Large life sciences deals and corporate investors buying the companies in their own portfolio have been key to an improving exit market.
Dec 26, 2024Huge AI funds, obesity drugs and carbon capture – the CVC trends…
AI funding rounds commanded huge prices in 2024, but corporate investors also made large bets in healthcare, energy and robotics.
Dec 25, 2024Updated: 7 new startups reshaping the packaging sector
Many of the companies have financial and corporate venture backers, as businesses seek alternatives to single-use plastics.
Dec 24, 20242024 marks flurry of university spinout fund launches
University venture funds are becoming an increasingly important tool for universities to support their ecosystems — here are the new ones launched in 2024.
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