Intel Capital-backed Delve Networks, a provider of online video publishing and analytics services, exits to Nasdaq-listed Limelight Networks.
Month: August 2010
Time found for AdMeld deal
AdMeld raises $15m in its series C round from Time Warner Investments and venture capital firms.
Cleveland Clinic mines Explorys deal
Cleveland Clinic Innovations, a corporate venture-style investor on behalf of the non-profit academic medical centre in Ohio, has reinvested in Explorys’ $2.55m series B round.
BlackBerry makes Payfone call
Research In Motion-backed BlackBerry Partners Fund joins $11m series B round for Payfone.
July deals spark venturing interest
Global Corporate Venturing research finds more than 60 investments and proposed exits.
Kaplan strikes first deal from new fund
Moodlerooms, a US-based software company for online learning, raised $7.15m from Kaplan Ventures and venture capital firms.
Swisscom Ventures focuses on timing the take-off
Profile: Swisscom Ventures shows how a corporate venturing group can work in the utilities sector to build its reputation as a highly-successful and thoughtful unit.
Fresh demands led to relaunch of DTE Energy Ventures
Profile: DTE Energy Ventures shows regulatory impetus requires one of the US’s largest and most influential energy companies to use venturing as a tool to meet its renewable power goals.
Ostara shows how water utilities reclaim impetus
Case study: Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies shows how venture capital firms and entrepreneurs can work with utilities on innovation.
Utilities and corporate venturing: does that make sense?
A corporate venturing veteran reflects on the lessons telecoms operators have faced in dealing with technology change and innovation during a period of regulatory change in the utilities sector.
Most influential utility corporate venturing units
Global Corporate Venturing ranks the most influential corporate venturing divisions in the utilities, including telecom operators, sector.
Why energy-focused corporate venturing funds fail
Academic paper identifies reasons behind sector’s poor venturing survival rates.
The power of innovation at utilities
Utilities seek to escape their burning platforms into an era of new products and processes
Gaule’s Question Time: A track record in investment for the future
In the second of a series of monthly interviews with leading venture investors, Andrew Gaule, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Geoff McGrath, right, managing director of McLaren Applied Technologies, at the factory and Formula 1 centre in Woking.