Global Corporate Venturing ranking of the most influential corporate venturing units at industrial companies.
Month: February 2011
Feature: Industrials sector
The power of imagination is keeping old and new industrial groups developing through corporate venturing.
Innovative region: Chile
Chile leads South America as an region trying to change the world through innovation rather than revolution.
IBF Conference: The growth of optimism
Global Corporate Venturing editor James Mawson was a conference advisory board member at the IBF 13th Annual Corporate Venturing and Innovation Partnering conference February 16-18, 2011. (see quotes at bottom of article.)
Chasing the rabbit: deal origination best practice
David Teten, chief executive of Teten Advisors, with Chris Farmer, venture partner at General Catalyst Partners, make five recommendations to improve the volume and relevance of dealflow.
Deal round-up: February 2011
A round up of all the deals from February 2011.
Innovation Talent Insights: Phil McKinney
In the first of a series of interviews of senior executives, Kyung Yoon, chief executive of Talent Age Associates, a global talent management firm speaks to Phil McKinney, vice-president and chief technology offcer of the Personal Systems Group at Hewlett-Packard.
Gaule’s Question Time: Cody Gate Ventures
As part of a series of interviews with leading venture investors and developers, Andrew Gaule, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Stephen Lake, managing partner of Cody Gate Ventures.
Whose responsibility is it?
Intellectual property and a good reputation are the currencies for collaboration to work
The challenge of working laterally across sectors
Lucid thought comes from tranquility but innovation requires a global outlook and preparedness to look across sectors, something the industrial groups do well at.
Motorola Mobility calls Catch Media
Motorola Mobility, which last month split from Motorla Solutions for business users, joins US talent agency WME Entertainment as a strategic investor in Catch Media.
Investors join MD Start incubator
Sorin Group joins medical device peer Medtronic in backing MD Start, a Switzerland-based healthcare incubator.
Novo new investor for HTG
Novo joined Merck Capital Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of US-based drugs company Merck & Co, in the High Throughput Genomics investment consortium along with venture capital firms Fletcher Spaght Ventures, Solstice Capital and Valley Ventures.
Pharmaron raises $40m
Lenovo’s Legend Capital and venture capital firm DCM reinvested in a consortium alongside GL Capital Group in Pharmaron’s $40m C round.