Companies increase amounts and role in entrepreneurial investment syndicates and new and existing units prepare for further growth.
Month: November 2010
Venturing programmes live longer
Average life of a corporate venturing programme increased from 2.5 years to 3.8 years over the past decade as they become a recognised part of the innovation toolkit.
Exciting times lie ahead as VC industry shrinks
The number of maturing venture capital funds heavily outnumbers those being raised as the industry contracts.
Innovative regions: Ireland
The Emerald Isle promotes its venturing strategy in the first of a new series of places trying to support its entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Deal round-up: November 2010
Click on this table for a summary of November 2010’s deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement.
An approach to corporate venturing that works
Part two in a two-part series on sidestepping pitfalls in corporate venturing.
Gaule’s Question Time: Allegis lets direct experience guide it
As part of a series of interviews with leading venture investors and developers, Andrew Gaule, left, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Bob Ackerman, managing director and founder, Allegis Capital (pictured).
Should you raise venture capital?
Entrepreneurs would be better off making money first before taking in venture money at high valuations.
Decade’s first year reveals promise and success
Review of 2010 shows corporate venturing has become a crucial tool for growth and dealing with the legacy of the credit crunch.
Canon fires SuperSonic investment shot
SuperSonic Imagine, a France-based developer of ultrasound medical imaging technology, has raised €34.5m ($45m) in its series C round from a consortium including Japan-based equipment company Canon. The C round was led by Mérieux Développement, a corporate venturing unit of local foundation Institut Mérieux, as a new investor alongside peer InnoBio. The round had initially… Continue reading Canon fires SuperSonic investment shot
Morgan Stanley taps ClickFox deal
Morgan Stanley Alternative Investment Partners (AIP), the bank’s venture capital and private equity division, was joined by unnamed other investors in backing ClickFox, a US-based software company analyzing banking customers.
Suez launches venturing fund
Suez Environnement, a France-based water and waste treatment company part-owned by utility GDF Suez, has set up a €50m ($66m) corporate venturing fund. Blue Orange will invest between €500,000 and €2m in seed to development-stage water and waste companies in Europe, North America and Asia but will also have the flexibility to call down more… Continue reading Suez launches venturing fund
Nordlander takes NYC post for Google Ventures
Erik Nordlander, has become a partner of engineering at Google Ventures in New York City after working at the firm leading the team that built Google’s display advertising serving system and helping the company’s acquisition and technical integration of Doubleclick.
Rusnano invests in Plastic Logic
News provider Financial Times said Rusnano had provided the first tranche of $150m to build a Plastic Logic factory in Zelenograd, a town outside Moscow, and start a plastic electronics industry in Russia.