M12, a Microsoft Venture Fund, has hired Jason McBride as a partner, after working as the corporation's director of business development for two years

FTX-backed PayUp agreed to merge with IG Acquisition while multiple corporates participated in Line Man Wongnai’s $265m series B round.

From board seats to leading rounds to deciding when to back boom stocks — there are a lot of VC obsessions that corporate investors can skip.

Suraj Patel has left VC firm Bow Capital after six years and will head the data software group’s corporate venturing arm, MongoDB Ventures.

These were some of the key people moves in corporate venturing departments in the IT sector over the past year.

FTX, Coinbase, Huobi and Protocol Labs backed the startup keeping an eye on crypto sentiment, a measure that can be profitable or costly.

Amid a general downturn, spinouts have been faring much better than the startup world at large.

The debt finance deal gives FTX the chance to buy crypto management tool developer BlockFi for up to $240m - less than 10% of its last valuation - and the news should be making equity investors nervous.

Michel Combes is leaving his position as CEO of SoftBank Group International after just five months, the latest in a string of high-level investor departures at the corporate.

The number of corporate-backed deals dropped by 13% year-on-year in May, the first clear sign that the market pullback is having an impact.

Investment firm Anicut has hired Dhruv Kapoor to lead its Anicut Opportunities Fund I vehicle following more than five years at Russia-based Sistema's Asia Capital unit.

Biren Technology helped provide $120m for CPU producer HJ Micro while ArcelorMittal is set to invest $100m a year through its XCarb Innovation Fund and Accelerator Programme.

Corporate-backed media deals topped $1bn last year and this year looks to be on track to outpace 2021.

Sector report: Media

51 - 150 in alphabetical order of CVC unit: Kaoru Hayashi, representative director, chairman and CEO, DG Ventures

The oil major is pivoting away from investing through its $400m fund to focus on smaller earlier-stage investments amid rocketing valuations for climatetech companies.

Jodi Olson has reportedly left Alphabet’s early-stage investment arm, where she had been a communications and marketing partner for roughly a decade.

The company, which largely remains in stealth mode, has set itself a mission of increasing the human lifespan by a decade.

Industry Q1 2022 editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing

2021 was a record year for Coinbase Ventures, with just under 150 deals, averaging a new deal every 2.5 days.