Our curated tables, segmented month by month, provide an in-depth chronicle of every corporate venture fund engagement. Delve into the specifics of investments, investors, funding rounds, deal sizes, and more.
Category: Deals
The Big Deal: GoStudent looks to overcome edtech blues
Tencent, Prosus and SoftBank helped the tutoring service raise $95m despite the sector tanking post-pandemic. But GoStudent’s move toward offline services and AI could point to where edtech startups go next.
Prosus Ventures leads Plerion’s $10m seed round
The Sydney-based cloud security company’s latest round is led by Prosus Ventures, which has invested in Australia for the first time.
The Big Deal: Impulse Space prepares for spacetech’s next stage
As Earth’s orbit fills with satellites, space service providers like RTX and Airbus-backed Impulse represent the sector’s next step toward the Moon and Mars.
IAG funds sustainable jet fuel startup
Nova Pangaea Technologies will channel the airline group’s equity financing into construction of its first waste-to-fuel plant later this year.
The Big Deal: Climate change brings T-Mobile and Salesforce to fire alert technology
Why are these corporates investing in wildfire monitoring systems? Pano CEO Sonia Kastner tells us about the strategic link and how the wildfire epidemic can be brought under control.
The Big Deal: Opportunity for CVCs to globalise Japanese startups
There’s an opportunity for CVCs to help take Japanese startups global. Large funding rounds for Telexistence and Caddi show what is possible.
The Big Deal: DePoly wants to solve the world’s plastic problem
Founder and CEO Samantha Anderson talks to us about how DePoly plans to expand its plastic recycling capabilities following a seed round co-led by BASF.
The Big Deal: Kobold uses AI to pinpoint mineral deposits
The AI-equipped mining company, which raised $195m this week, can help bridge a multitrillion-dollar supply gap for the rare earth metals used in batteries, according to Equinor Ventures’ Jeroen van der Hoek.
June Deal Roundup: Wrtn raises $11.8m in series A funding
Z Holdings’ Z Venture Capital subsidiary took part in interactive generative AI platform Wrtn’s $11.8m series A round.
The Big Deal: Helium Health heads Nigeria’s new wave of tech startups
Helium’s $30m series B attracted several international corporates, and its healthcare software suite is an example of how Nigeria’s companies are moving on from traditional areas like fintech.
The Big Deal: Airline investors line up for CleanJoule’s aviation fuel
Frontier Airlines, Volaris and Wizz Air – none of which were CVCs two months ago – helped the startup raise $50m, but their purchasing power might end up being more important to the company’s future.
May Deal Roundup: Unilever Ventures backs Selva Ventures in new $34m fund
Selva Ventures closed its second fund at $34m, securing support from Unilever and others in the consumer and professional sports sectors.
The Big Deal: Google backs Anthropic in the AI duel
Google’s second big investment in Anthropic in three months puts it head to head with Microsoft-backed OpenAI in the generative AI race.