In February last year, TastemakerX secured $1.8m in its series A round from AOL Ventures.
Month: March 2013
Alloy Digital fuses with $30m
Since July 2011, Alloy said it had bought five content companies: Generate, B5 Media, Clevver Media, the Escapist and Smosh, which has had more than two billion views on video channel YouTube.
PTC bulks up with $60m
Alongside Celgene and Novo as reinvestors in PTC are Investment bank Credit Suisse and fund managers HBM Healthcare Investments, Vulcan Capital, Delphi Ventures and Column Group.
Robust activity continues as M&A gets buyout boost
Corporate venturing activity continues largely unchanged, although broader
mergers and acquisitions were handed a boost by the re-emergence of the private
equity buyout, with a $24.4bn bid for US-based computer maker Dell and a $23bn
offer for US-based consumer goods company Heinz.
Start-up belle vie faces tax challenge
“In France it takes even more courage than usual to be an entrepreneur,” says Marc Westermann, principal of telecommunications and internet corporation, SFR Développement, when asked about the current climate for French-based start-ups. Like many European countries, France’s economy is facing numerous challenges. Unlike some of its European neighbours the country’s fiscal imbalances have come… Continue reading Start-up belle vie faces tax challenge
The great leap forward
In an increasingly global venture capital landscape, corporate venturing has a
unique part to play in turning the great potential offered by these transformations
into value for their corporate parents, write Boris Battistini, research associate, ETH Zurich, and Martin Haemmig, adjunct professor CeTIM at UniBW Munich and Leiden University.
Corporate innovation vital for low-carbon economy
The use of a portfolio of approaches to innovation taken by leading corporates has
a number of benefits, in the same way that investors will use a portfolio of asset
classes. The more corporates take this intelligent, portfolio approach to cleantech
innovation, the more chance we have of finding routes towards sustainable
prosperity, argues Jamie Vollbracht, former head of new ventures, innovation, at
Carbon Trust.
Eileen Tanghal, Joe Dews: Areas of opportunity
Clean technology continues to change our world, and as semiconductor devices
become ubiquitous due to growing consumer mobile demands, and the internet-of
things concept becomes a reality, support for innovative thought leaders should be
continued, argue Eileen Tanghal, senior investment director, Applied Ventures, and
Joe Dews, partner, AGC Partners.
A catalyst for investment
UK Trade & Investment venture capital unit director Chris Wade talks to Global
Corporate Venturing editor-in-chief James Mawson.
Gaule’s Question Time: David Atkinson, Circadia
Andrew Gaule, founder of the Corven Corporate Venturing Network, talks to David
Atkinson, managing partner of Circadia Ventures, fund manager for Tate & Lyle
Ventures.
Sparks fly at IBF gathering
The International Business Forum’s Corporate Venturing and Innovation Partnering Conference in Newport Beach, California, last month provided a summary of how the corporate venturing world is thinking as it enjoys a period of rapid growth, with the conference seeing the airing of our data tracking a near 30% increase in the number of corporate venturing… Continue reading Sparks fly at IBF gathering
US titans help UK firm with $22bn small cell market
UK-based company IP.access is one of only a handful of big players in a potential $22bn market. This prediction for 2016 was voiced at the telecommunications industry’s annual Mobile World extravaganza in Barcelona by one market observer, Informa Telecoms & Media, commissioned by IP.access’s industry trade body, the Small Cell Forum. Cambridge-based company IP.access makes… Continue reading US titans help UK firm with $22bn small cell market
Profile: ABB Technology Ventures
Girish Nadkarni, who leads Switzerland-based industrial company ABB’s corporate venturing unit, could arguably be mistaken for a journalist, if his recent intellectually inquisitive attendance at the International Business Forum’s Corporate Venturing and Innovation Partnering conference in Newport Beach, California, is representative. At least two executives commented that he had been the most vocal person in… Continue reading Profile: ABB Technology Ventures
Industrial companies gear up for venturing
Industrial companies are facing a period of pronounced change as the pace
of innovation has enabled start-ups to enter areas long the domain of large
corporations. In response, large corporates are starting or expanding corporate
venturing programmes.