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Month: April 2012
Most influential: consumer 2012
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Feature: Consumer sector 2012
Consumer companies eat up venture investments.
Case study: Rahu Catalytics
Rahu finds right chemistry for Unilever.
Innovating innovation? General Mills makes it happen
Now they have developed a new approach to their open innovation efforts called X3 and I really like how they focus on the need for facilitators.
Profile: Amazon
Servicing the world’s consumers.
StyleTread raises A$12m
CVC Capital Partners-backed Nine Entertainment, which launched its corporate venturing unit last year, has helped online shoe company StyleTread raise $12m ($12.5m).
Corporates pour $22.7m into Belgian uni spin-out
Pharmaceutical groups Boehringer Ingelheim and Shire as well as Japanese conglomerate Mitsui’s corporate venturing unit and ATMI have helped Promethera Biosciences, a Belgium-based cell therapy company, raise €17m ($22.7m). The companies were joined in the series B round on Wednesday by Belgium-based venture capital firm SambrInvest. The Walloon Region, which has backed the company since… Continue reading Corporates pour $22.7m into Belgian uni spin-out
Hearst inks Stylus deal
Media company Hearst Corporation takes a 20% stake in the UK-based design intelligence company, and separately one of its corporate venturing unit’s portfolio companies raises a $20m round.
Enphase pops 22.3%
The corporate venturing unit of Applied Materials is the only greater than 5% shareholder which did not buy stock in the flotation.
Plastics show eastern promise
One thing is sure, we will see more and more similar attempts to break into China, given expectations of its huge promise.
Healthcare leads trend in venture connectivity
But, given the pluarality of syndicates being formed by investor objectives, managing the consortia so the entrepreneur can actually deliver on the potential discovery will be challenging.
HOLD – Brown to leave SAIC
Brown said he would be a consulting employee on some matters for a quarter or two and that SAIC would continue to “very sparingly” use its corporate venturing tool.
Crowe to fly from Naspers
Crowe has spent 18 months as head of operations at MIH Europe after two and a half years as head of mergers and acquisitions for the group and Naspers in Europe.