Peter Lenke, head of Atlassian Ventures, is one of the 100 leading corporate venturing professionals in our 2025 Powerlist.

Social media is in flux. Here are a list of new platforms that are vying to become the next Instagram or Twitter.

Several CVC units are targeting generative AI, but customer service software provider Zendesk has launched one of the few that can onboard that technology right now.

Artificial intelligence is a game-changer in helping VC investors find investments. But corporate venture capitalists need lots of money, independence and discipline to take advantage of the technology.

Alphabet alumnus Gideon Yu is reportedly raising $500m to back companies spun out of incubator X Development like 280 Earth, Waymo and Google Glass.

2023 was an exciting year for corporate venture, with sectors like AI and electric vehicles making headline news. But what were our most read stories of 2023?

David Garcia, head of National Basketball Association team the Atlanta Hawks' venture fund, is targeting consumer experience ventures rather than sports technology.

Gabriela Toribio tells us why Wayra Brasil and the newly formed Vivo Ventures have an inside track in a market where early-stage funding is plummeting.

Peter Lenke has succeeded Matt Sonefeldt as head of the enterprise software provider's corporate venture unit following more than six years running CVC and M&A activity at Twitter.

But to seize it, corporate investment teams must step up their messaging about the long-term value they create.

Kitty Sullivan, principal at JLL Spark, is one of our 50 emerging leaders in corporate venturing in 2023.

Corporations are playing a bigger role in supporting new entrants to the venture industry.

Remember Twitter's corporate venture fund? No? How about Adidas, Qantas or Disney? We delve into the past to go through some of the units time forgot.

The $32bn crypto exchange declared bankruptcy today leaving SoftBank, Coinbase and Circle among its burned investors. How did this happen and where does it leave the sector?

There is no let-up yet in the investor pullback, but a series of big energy fundraises helped keep total deal value from falling further.

Several new entrants to the corporate venturing sector could keep the number of active units above their pre-pandemic highs.

The drop in the US financial services group's market capitalisation shows how undervalued venture investments are as the economy slows.

Sumitomo participated in Zebra Labs’ $5m round while investors including FTX Ventures and Aptos provided $3m in pre-seed funding for Martian.

Twitter had been an infrequent corporate venturer with more of a focus on acquisitions. But it had ramped up activity in the past year.

The talent agency, which represents everyone from Arnold Schwarzenegger to the D'Amelio sisters, is investing in the creator economy together with Investcorp.