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Another big tech AI investment has skewed the month's total, but underneath lies strong dealmaking in industrial startups and growth in Japan.

Europe has a growing need for data centres capable of handling new AI services, and which can run on sustainable energy.

Telemedicine didn't solve the fundamental cost problem in healthcare, but new AI models may be tackling this.

Multi-billion dollar funding rounds for OpenAI and Waymo lifted the dollar value of CVC-backed rounds to levels last seen in 2022. But there's an underlying rise in deal numbers, too.

Half of all of the energy startups raising money from corporate investors in 2024 tapped up companies outside the energy sector.

Japan is second only to the US when it comes to spacetech startups raising funding from the corporate sector.

Wondering which corporate venturers have specialist investment funds for artificial intelligence? Here is the list of traditional funds and new units, offshoots and accelerators.

After launching Socium Ventures in 2023 with a $300m fund, the US conglomerate has announced a second $300m targeting tech startups.

Under pressure to simplify supply chains and improve sustainability, Nupo Ventures is building startups, with six under its belt so far.

Japan's sophisticated network of university investment funds make it an outlier among other Asian countries.

Smaller companies build their own ventures more than larger corporates and the chief executive is more involved with the CVC, according to GCV's Keystone benchmarking survey.