The company has partnerships with Amerigroup Florida/WellPoint, Wyckoff Heights Medical Center in New York and Dignity Health in California, and retail pharmacy and public sector initiatives through the City of Louisville.
Month: April 2013
Intel, Google most active
This is an analysis of the ten most active units and has attached the main data of our new quarterly reports, the first of which, a 12-page special, can be seen in full, in this month’s magazine.
Does my investment look big in that?
Our regular columnist Marianne Abib-Pech, fresh from buying an Alexander McQueen dress, considers the worth of investing in fashion.
Why corporate venturing needs to adapt to survive
The most forward-thinking of corporates are not only using open innovation, but are looking to incubators as a
fast and effective way to set it in motion.
Shell fuels search for new energy technologies
How in the world will we generate the supplies to meet the doubling in global energy demand anticipated by 2050? Effective solutions that address rising energy needs are essential to fuel our fast-moving world. Following the traditional pattern, it requires decades to introduce and bring to commercial scale new and alternative forms of energy. Exploring… Continue reading Shell fuels search for new energy technologies
Gaule’s Question Time: Alex Steel, Syngenta Ventures
Andrew Gaule, founder of the Corven Corporate Venturing Network, talks to Alex Steel, head of corporate venture capital, Syngenta.
Profile: Unilever Ventures
The corporate venturing unit of Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company Unilever has made plans to increase its assets under management with its latest $450m fund from its parent, Global Corporate Venturing can reveal.
Consumer companies shop for start-ups
Modern consumer corporations generally continue to pump out the kind of products that the world population simply cannot stop buying. Yet these industries, which have been brutally competitive, as well as profitable, since ancient times, are being transformed by a rapidly growing world population, where consumer spending power is truly globalising.
March deals slow as Cyprus scares markets
Corporate venturing investments slowed in March by number and value as exits were boosted by three initial public offerings. The slowdown in deal activity came as nerves appeared to creep back into wider market trading, as eurozone country Cyprus negotiated a bailout that involved haircuts for bank depositors.
Tensilica is lucrative exit
US-based chip design software manufacturer Tensilica, backed by Japan technology companies Fujitsu and NTT, and US-based technology company Cisco, was the biggest sale of the quarter, in an exit to US-based chip design software manufacturer Cadence Design Systems for $380m. The biggest initial public offering of the quarter was the $108m raised by US-based marketing software company Marin Software.
Corporate venturing participants near 1,000
The number of corporate venturing units, tracked by Global Corporate Venturing, has risen to 971. We examine their development.
Sequoia keeps busiest
Sequoia Capital was the venture capital firm most active alongside corporates in the first quarter. It was in the syndicate backing Xoom, which raised $101m in its initial public offering, at a market capitalisation of $509m, as was SVB Capital, the private equity division of Silicon Valley Bank.
360Buy in biggest deal
A look at the largest deals in the quarter, including the $700m round of private equity funding for China-based e-commerce site 360Buy, as eye-catchingly large Asia deals continue to be a staple of our coverage.
Quarter shows deal decline
The main investment and exit stats from the quarter.