Driver assistance system developer valued at $1.5bn in equity sale to investors including Enterprise Rent-A-Car.
Month: July 2013
BBVA expands SumUp
Smartphone payments company will expand into South America with extra series B injection from BBVA.
Alternative investments: cars
Investing in vintage cars is like investing in horses. It requires patience, passion and interest in the sheer beauty of the asset.
Tel Aviv: Start-up city
If people want to see the future of the world economy they should look to Tel Aviv, home to hundreds of startups and research centres,” Barack Obama, president of the US, said in March. For more on Obama’s views, expressed in his lucid and inspirational style, it is worth watching part of this linked video of his speech in Israel, starting around… Continue reading Tel Aviv: Start-up city
How innovation spreads from emerging markets
What exactly is reverse innovation? Does it matter to your innovation strategy?
IP: protect a start-up’s core value
The first of a three part series looking at intellectual property.
Clean Deal: the open innovation approach
If clean deals are to be done, a combination of open innovation, corporate venturing and good old financial venturing are increasingly going to be required.
Corporate venturing knights at round-tables
Sharing experiences and knowledge is the core of the Corven Networks approach, so we were delighted to organise the roundtables and capture those insights at Power Brokers, the third annual Global Corporate Venturing Symposium. The 18 roundtables over the two days of the symposium covered a range of issues, from deal structuring to getting value from being a limited partner (LP… Continue reading Corporate venturing knights at round-tables
Gaule’s Question Time: Roy Williamson
Andrew Gaule, of Corven Networks, interviews Roy Williamson, Castrol InnoVentures.
IT corporates make waves
The top tier of the IT sector is one of the most active in
corporate venturing and in our July issue we round-up activity in the sector during the last year.
H1 data round-up
Our latest snap-shot of activity in corporate venturing.
The next tech giant can be European
What will allow Europe to change into an ideal place to start a company and enable it to lead the way in growing innovative companies that fuel the global economy?
Corporate dating takes to online matchmaking
Global Corporate Venturing is partnering New York Stock Exchange on the NYSE Corporate Connections programme. This programme is looking for our readership to recommend their portfolio companies for the system, which has already signed up 15 corporates.
YouTube and Vevo play it again
Music video platform Vevo is reported to have secured $40m – $50m from Google subsidiary YouTube, as they renew their partnership.