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NGP Capital’s second fund produced six unicorns and top quartile returns while navigating significant change at Nokia, its corporate partner. Managing partner Paul Asel shares 6 insights others can take from the experience.

From excessive dilution to aggressive clauses, corporate investors look for these red flags when scouting new investments.

Adding strategic value is an obvious one. But other traits are important to corporate venture capital investors too.

The corporate venturing veteran, who founded Microsoft’s CVC, M12, joins the list of recent departures from the embattled fund.

Funding for agricultural technology startups and deals in India increased in January, amid an overall fall in activity.

Oil and gas companies backed more startup funding rounds in 2022 than the previous year, but the dollar valuation of deals fell by more than two thirds.

Penske Media's $100m investment in Vox Media halved its valuation, as the digital media sector continues to consolidate while its companies struggle against prevailing trends.

Countries like Germany, Switzerland and Japan have benefitted from an explosive growth in capital, but the US still dominates and the UK risks being left behind, our in-depth analysis shows.

Managing director Lorrain de Silva tells us why Jägermeister's Best Nights VC fund invests in everything from dating apps to Bluetooth speakers, and why NFTs and sextech might be on the horizon.

Just 249 investments were announced in the last three months of 2022 but the year was still the second-best on record in almost every category.