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Verizon Ventures halts investments
Verizon’s corporate venture arm has stopped making investments and its lead executives have left the company, GCV understands.
TechEnergy Ventures is on the hunt for hard assets
With a focus on hardware, the unit sees huge opportunity to help its parent company develop cleantech assets.
Touchdown Ventures merges with wealth manager Cerity Partners
The new merged company will be known as Cerity Partners Ventures.
Ex-BHP Ventures head Buzzo to lead parent firm’s strategy team
Michael Buzzo has taken a portfolio strategy role at the Australian mining group.
Will influx of pension cash keep more high-growth startups in the UK?
Hopes are lifting that increased pension investment will encourage late-stage startups to stay in the country and even seek to list on the London Stock Exchange.
Why CVCs are outshining traditional VCs
Corporate-led funding rounds account for larger and larger shares of total venture investment. The trend is here to stay as CVC offers startups more than just money.
Salesforce Ventures doubles AI commitment to $1bn with new fund
The CVC unit has formed a second $500m fund, having invested in two dozen artificial intelligence startups, including Anthropic, Mistral and Cohere, in the past 18 months.
How investors can ride the latest Korean beauty wave
Korean beauty brands have become worldwide hits and investors are flocking to the sector. This is how Signite Partners is staying ahead of the game.
L’Oreal and Evonik combine investments in microbe tech startup Abolis
The corporates backed a $38.6m series A round for Abolis through an agreement to develop sustainable cosmetics ingredients together.
Associated British Ports eyes startup investing in bid to decarbonise
The UK port operator is taking its first steps into corporate venturing by considering equity stakes in startups in return for discounted leases and other fees at its ports.
Sabancı uses VC arm to push into the US renewables market
Sabancı is building a multi-gigawatt renewables portfolio, and Sabancı Climate Ventures is helping find US and European start-up technologies to plug in.
Energy transition is pushing mining companies to innovate faster, says Vale Ventures head
Bruno Arcadier says scaling up startups to handle the vast volumes of the mining industry is a key challenge.
Spinout spotlight: ETH spinout Optiml uses AI to decarbonise real estate
A hands-off approach from the Swiss university makes starting a software company like Optiml — which is using AI to map out CO² cuts in real estate — easier, says CEO Evan Petkov.