Transport

BlackBerry Ivy Innovation Fund put up capital to advance cost savings in vehicular maintenance.

If a CVC unit wants to bring in outside money, it needs a great track record, a unique angle and skin in the game.

Susquehanna Growth Equity has led a $62m series B round for speech-to-text software provider Speechmatics, while Fidelity’s Eight Roads unit led digital asset data aggregator Kaiko's $53m series B.

The motor company CVC is launching its second Exploratory Fund vintage later this year.

Vito Giallorenzo of BlackBerry joined the Global Venturing Review podcast to discuss how the BlackBerry IVY Innovation Fund is working to make automobiles smarter.

Prosus helped B2B e-commerce platform ShopUp lift its series B round to $174m while SPIL Ventures co-led a $70m series C for trucking optimisation platform Deliveree.

SoftBank led contract management platform developer LegalForce's $102m series D round while several corporates exited logistics service provider GogoX in an $85m IPO.

A range of corporates helped hydrogen system developer Electric Hydrogen raise $198m while Shell and Chevron backed fusion energy system developer Zap's $160m series C.

Woven Capital managing director George Kellerman tells GCV about the fund and how it works with Toyota Ventures and Toyota ahead of his spotlight interview on the first day of this year’s GCVI Summit.

Asian, fintech-focused and less than seven years old – some of the CVC trends we saw when compiling the Global Corporate Venturing Directory.