Strategic investments that are no longer strategic
Month: September 2011
Shared value for entrepreneur and corporate
How an entrepreneur views strategic partnerships
Patterns are made to be broken
Patterns are created in our childhood – the repetition of these patterns is what creates comfort, a sense of knowing and a sense of self.
Gaule’s Question Time: BASF Venture Capital
As part of a series of interviews with leading innovation and venture developers, Andrew Gaule, founder of the Corporate Venturing Network, talks to Dr Josef Wu?nsch, managing director, BASF Venture Capital.
A time of transformation
Media industry undergoing systemic change to content production, delivery and monetisation turns to corporate venturing for solutions.
CrunchFund time for Michael Arrington and AOL
Michael Arrington, the founder of the technology-focused business website TechCrunch, has resigned as editor of the AOL-owned site in order to found his own venture capital (VC) fund, to be known as CrunchFund, in conjunction with Patrick Gallagher, a partner at VantagePoint Capital Partners. Crunchfund closed its initial financing at $20m, with AOL Ventures as… Continue reading CrunchFund time for Michael Arrington and AOL
Neuropace gathers speed as it collects more funding
The Johnson & Johnson-backed medical device company has raised almost $50m in its latest round of funding, as clinical tests for its new system continue.
Jobs goes, will Apple look to venture?
Apple products, perhaps most notably the iPad, the iPhone and the Mac, have provided some of the biggest opportunities for companies generally to piggyback off great corporate product design. In the world of technology there has been a symbiotic relationship between providers of content for such mother ships, firstly personal computers, then the internet itself… Continue reading Jobs goes, will Apple look to venture?
The times they are a-changin’
“The chance won’t come again/ And don’t speak too soon/ For the wheel’s still in spin/ And there’s no tellin’ who that it’s namin’/ For the loser now will be later to win/ For the times they are a-changin.'”
Bob Dylan, 1963
TheMediaLab experiments with MeinProspekt
Retail comparison and advertising company MeinProspekt has attracted seven figure backing from TheMediaLab and its existing investors.
Virgin affected by Solyndra bankruptcy
The chapter 11 filing of Solyndra, comes as Virgin Green, an affiliate of UK-based conglomerate Virgin, is attempting to raise its second private equity fund.
Shocking is electric for Littelfuse
Electronics manufacturer Littelfuse joins investors in backing Shocking, maker of a solution preventing electrostatic discharge.
Intel Capital feels the need for Aspeed
Taiwan-based semiconductor maker Aspeed has become the latest company to obtain funding from Intel Capital, the US-based semiconductor conglomerate’s corporate venturing unit investing an undisclosed amount. Aspeed is only the most recent of a series of Asia-based fabless semiconductor companies to receive financing from Intel Capital, with the China-based BCD, Chipsbrand, Legend Silicon among the… Continue reading Intel Capital feels the need for Aspeed
Intel sees safe option in Mocana
Previously backed by Panasonic, Matshushita and Symantec, Mocana finds Intel the latest large company to take an interest.