A record number of corporate venturing funds have been raised this year.
Month: December 2011
2011: A year in perspective
Welcome to the Global Corporate Venturing analysis of 2011, where we pick out the biggest themes as decided by the people who count – the corporate venturing heads and those in the related ecosystem.
Gamesa pursues clean future
The company was currently talking with other venture capital firms to pursue joint investment opportunities, allowing it to participate in bigger deals.
Telefonica prioritises venture after Jajah buy
The Spain-based phone operator is now tapped into the most important dealflow in technology around the world, after moving into Israel and Silicon Valley.
Innovative regions: Spain
Corporates invest through the storm in Europe’s penninsular
Assessing a unit’s impact
Part II of the Bell Mason Group’s analysis for how to manage a corporate venturing group
Deal round-up: November 2011
This table (click here) summarises November 2011’s deal activity with a corporate venturinginvolvement.
Entrepreneurs provide lessons in what they need
It can take 20 years to change a culture to boost a nation’s entrepreneurialism..
A quiet revolution in clean energy finance
Large corporate players are beginning to show interest in early-stage clean energy companies, both through corporate investment arms and through full acquisitions. Their behaviour displays promising parallels to the early days of the biotechnology industry.
Efficiency – the third industrial revolution
The next investment cycle will result in big returns for private and corporate investors alike in a broad range of areas related to efficiency and resources.
A different kind of venture
Tips on finding corporate venture partners
Boosting entrepreneurism as venture capital dwindles
How corporate venturing activities should be structured.
Gaule’s Question Time: Frank Herkstroter, P&G
Gaule: Give a brief description of the purpose of your innovation and the key areas for P&G. Herkströter: P&G decided about 10 years ago that, in order to meet its growth objectives, the only way would be to "connect and develop" beyond the type of collaboration that already took place with P&G’s suppliers. So, the… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: Frank Herkstroter, P&G
Industry raises its banner for 2011
Global Corporate Venturing warned there was a period of grace to use free cashflows to innovate and reorganise before the “owners of the debt will call to collect both the interest and the principal borrowed”. This day of reckoning has at times drawn extremely near in 2011.