Mitsui Global Investment makes a strategic investment into US-based Kaminario, a provider of high performance all solid-state (SSD) SAN storage solutions, which brings the total raised by the company to $70m.
Month: December 2012
Citrix invests in AppEnsure
Citrix’s Startup Accelerator fund, the early stage investment unit of Citrix Systems, has invested $250,000 in in US-based cloud startup company AppEnsure.
Summit invests $26m in Lazada
Summit Partners has invested $26m in Malaysia-based e-commerce website Lazada, created by Rocket Internet, and backed by investors including JP Morgan.
Profile: Siemens Venture Capital
Leaps by Siemens add up to strategic evolution.
2012 annual survey
Global Corporate Venturing surveyed the heads of corporate venturing units round the world as well as influentialservice providers and others in the ecosystem to askwhat was the most important event or trend in 2012. Next month we will reveal their answers on the outlook for 2013 – email your thoughts to jmawson@globalcorporateventuring.com Responses last year… Continue reading 2012 annual survey
Profile: Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers
Kleiner Perkins halo shines in the eyes of corporates.
Venture capital firms partner corporates
Dependability key to successful partnering between VCs and corporate venturing units.
2012 – great year for exits
A complicated market environment with radical shifts in sentiment towards technology companies during the year, could not subdue a good year for realisations. This year always looked like it was going to be a bumper year for exits, due to the long-anticipated Facebook initial public offering (IPO). See table So it has been for corporate-backed… Continue reading 2012 – great year for exits
2012’s fundraising tables
See table of top 30 fundraisings and units by size.
It’s back to the future
The concerns at the start of the year – at least judging by the respondents to our 2011 survey – were about the big macro-concerns of elections, sovereign debt and the euro’s potential break-up, as well as the challenges of operating a sophisticated corporate venturing unit in a globalised world where technology and innovation are… Continue reading It’s back to the future
Gaule’s Question Time: ABB
Gaule: Give a brief description of the your fund’s purpose. Nadkarni: ABB Technology Ventures (ATV) invests in early-stage companies that have technologies or business models of strategic interest to ABB. It was formed in late 2009 and we made our frst investment in 2010. To date we have invested about $150m in nine companies and… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: ABB
Part II: Making partnerships work
The second in a two-part article. The first part appeared in the November issue.
Measuring a founder’s quotient
A false read on a founder, or a founding team, has cost us more in missed opportunities than almost any other decision in our business.
Which way do you vote?
Motion: This House believes that in the field of corporate venturing, strategic objectives are becoming more highly prioritised, with a concomitant reduction in the relative importance of financial returns.