Functional foods open the door for innovation in a market that thought it had it all figured out.
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Four things all incubators can learn from BASF’s Chemovator
Invest like a VC, lean into corporate expertise, bring in external entrepreneurs and set up the unit with as much independence as possible.
Global investors line up for India’s EV explosion
Ambitious adoption targets and government incentives have positioned India’s electric mobility sector for rapid growth.
Why business development is CVC’s latest hot-ticket role
Corporate investment units that have business development embedded in their teams tend to outperform those that do without.
Why corporate investors are piling into India
As India’s startup sector matures, foreign CVCs are increasingly choosing to set up teams in the country to invest in high growth sectors such as climate tech, fintech and software.
AI is an equaliser for smaller law firms, Clio’s head of venture says
Shubham Datta of legal software company Clio’s VC arm, says technologies like AI are creating a supercycle of innovation in the legal sector.
Deutsche Bank zeroes in on AI investments
The German bank’s head of corporate venture capital tells us why generative AI will be the centre of an entire industry, and why now is a great time for CVCs to invest.
Cost-effective robots and reversing the ageing process, meet the startups at the GCV Symposium
From nuclear energy to measuring blood pressure with a smartphone camera, these are the ideas and startups showcased at the GCVI Symposium.
9t Labs aims to take 3D printing of carbon fibre mainstream
The ETH Zurich spinout has developed technology to 3D print carbon fibre composite into items such as drones and prosthetics more efficiently.
Digitising buildings – part of solving the climate crisis?
JCI Ventures unit chief Youssef Mawad discusses how carbon reduction targets will transform the future of the built environment.
Making proteins out of air – how CO2 can solve the food industry’s climate crisis
Vienna-based startup Arkeon Biotechnologies converts carbon dioxide into carbon-negative food ingredients.
Engineering the biofuture
Microorganisms are increasingly being harnessed to create everything from cleaner fuels to flavourings, dyes and chemicals, part of a growing interest in reengineering existing biological processes for new purposes.
What if our factories could breathe?
Using microbes to produce chemicals and fuels has long been a dream, but now a third wave of technological developments is making it economically viable.
“Hope is not a strategy,” says MSD GHI’s Taranto
It is time for startups and investors to get pragmatic about down rounds