AAA January 2012 – Page 11

Corporations the new conductors for entrepreneurs

The scale and scope of corporate venturing fundraising, combined with unique analysis by Martin Haemmig at Stanford University of historical investment data provided by Dow Jones VentureSource, allows the trends to be identified and the reveals the plans of the new conductors of the venture capital investment world.

Gaule’s Question Time: Motorola Solutions

Gaule: Give a brief description of the purpose of your venture unit, when it was formed and how the process occurs in your organisation. Schröder: MSVC, formerly Motorola Ventures, was formed in 1999 as the strategic venture capital arm of Motorola Solutions, formerly Motorola before its demerger into two parts 12 months ago. The purpose… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: Motorola Solutions

Dealmaking to increase in 2012

Last year’s slew of economic concerns and natural disasters has not dampened corporate venturing units’ expectations for doing deals this year, with more than 95% of those surveyed saying they would invest at least the same both by amount of money and by number of deals.

Wuensch promotion at BASF

Germany-based chemicals company BASF has promoted one of the co-heads of its corporate venturing unit. Josef Wünsch (pictured), managing director of BASF Venture Capital (BVC) since July 2006, is now senior vice-president of modelling, formulation research and technology incubation at BASF. Dirk Nachtigal, the other co-managing director of BASF Venture Capital for the past 10… Continue reading Wuensch promotion at BASF