Corporations should consider combining corporate venturing investment and incubation, Jacqueline LeSage Krause says in this first of a three-part series.
Month: June 2012
Applying decision analysis to venture investing: a look at Inkling
Venture capitalists should look to decision analysis to improve their investments, writes Clint Korver, illustrating his case by looking at one of his firms’ investments in textbook business Inkling.
Investors pick you, not your idea
An extract from How We Built Gilt Groupe and Changed the Way Millions Shop tell entrepreneurs how they should raise money.
Gaule’s Question Time: Dominique Mégret, Swisscom
Gaule: Give a brief description of the purpose of your venture, when it was formed and how the process occurs in your organisation. Mégret: Swisscom Ventures was formed in 2006 to strengthen Swisscom’s innovation ecosystem. We already had an outpost in Silicon Valley [California, US] back then, but we felt we needed to develop our… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: Dominique Mégret, Swisscom
Preferred partners, big funds
Early-stage investors now have their favourite corporate venturers on speed dial for their next start-up funding round, writes Bruce Booth
Analysing the analytics gap
Healthcare organisations should look to change entrenched innefficiencies and sub-optimal clinical outcomes by building their analyticcs competencies, writes Martin Kelly.
The power of partnership
US-based healthcare companies Merck and Cleveland Clinic outline their strategies in these edited highlights from Global Corporate Venturing’s symposium last month in London.
Profile: Johnson & Johnson Development Corporation
Johnson & Johnson’s unbroken history of taking minority equity stakes in third-party entrepreneurs marks it as one of the oldest and most consistent investors in corporate venturing, writes James Mawson
Merck Serono’s approach finds success
Merck Serono is finding its unconventional decision to opt for a strategic approach to the life sciences is sector yielding success.
Some healthy opportunities
Healthcare might be undergoing some macro-challenges as governments worry about how they will pay for people’s health in their old age, but it is also throwing up opportunities for non-traditional providers to enter the wellness sector. Consumer goods companies, such as Nestlé, Coca-Cola and Unilever, are looking at how their products might be used to… Continue reading Some healthy opportunities
Healthcare 2012: Well-being defines a growing sector
Healthcare corporations are filling a void left by retreating venture capital firms in their sector.
The explosion explained
The counter-cyclical activity of the present corporate venturing boom reverses the pattern of the past 40 years, where corporate venturing units started just when valuations were highest and before they crashed often leading to losses. James Mawson explains why.
Symposium 2012: SVB and Synchrony
Gerald Brady from SVB swaps war stories with Adam Caper from Synchrony.
Symposium 2012: Innogy and Topell
Crispin Leick from Innogy Ventures and Jules Kortenhorst from Topell provide a War Stories discussion.