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9 photonics spinouts that can speed up AI data centres and quantum
Advances in photonics technology will underpin next-generation computing, telecoms, aerospace and manufacturing. Here are nine spinouts that have emerged from university labs with VC backing.
Nov 3, 2025Canadian technology and services company Telus hires Chow for VC investments
Chow will lead investments in enterprise platforms and IoT in her new role as partner and investment director at Telus’s corporate investment unit.
Oct 6, 2025UK telecoms group BT expands venture building team
The UK telco has 5,000 patents that could form the basis of new ventures.
Sep 17, 2025Telecoms provider Swisscom hires Fehrmann as investment manager
Fehrmann will focus on investments in enterprise AI and industrial tech in his new role.
Sep 17, 2025Cutting-edge startups emerging from the UK's less-famous universities
Six spinout technologies — from lab-grown meat to satellite tech — that have come from UK universities usually overlooked by investors.
Aug 20, 2025Former Nokia investment unit NGP Capital hires Orr as senior associate
Tori Orr joins the investment team from JetBlue Ventures.
Aug 6, 2025Corporate VCs invited to try out new UK telecoms ‘spinout factory’
The Federated Telecoms Hubs brings together telecoms research from universities across the UK in a one-stop-shop for investors.
Jul 24, 2025Replacement retinas grown in zero gravity show potential of "space factories"
The costs of making things in space — and getting them back to earth — is high. But infrastructure to bring down the costs is being built.
Jul 17, 2025Oil and gas companies tripled investments in hydrogen startups in H1
The decline of cleantech and hydrogen investments is overstated in H1, according to GCV data, while transport investments go cold.
Jul 16, 2025Former Deutsche Telekom VC fund taps secondary market liquidity
DCTP, an investment company with corporate shareholders, has sold some its startup portfolio to Pinegrove Venture Partners to generate cash.
Jun 13, 20255 tips for investing in university spinouts
From working out the strategic value a corporate can bring to scientific innovation to cultivating the right sources in the university ecosystem, here are tips for investing in academic research.
May 22, 2025What Trump's first 100 days have meant for corporate investors
Investors in healthcare, hardware, climate tech and defence are feeling the impact of the Trump administration's policies.
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The CVC Funding Round DatabaseWhich corporates are backing which startups? Search our corporate deal database.The CVC Funding Round Database
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Nominate your CVC starsWe are compiling our annual list of outstanding early and mid-career CVC investors. Nominate yourself or someone on your team.Nominate your CVC stars
We are compiling our annual list of outstanding early and mid-career CVC investors. Nominate yourself or someone on your team.
Corporate venture building reportData from 100+ corporate venture building programmes, including size, budgets, staffing, reporting lines and outcomesCorporate venture building report
Data from 100+ corporate venture building programmes, including size, budgets, staffing, reporting lines and outcomes
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