A meeting at the offices of venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, in October 2009, first convinced Deborah Hopkins, US bank Citi’s chief innovation officer and chairman of venture capital initiatives, to travel to Palo Alto, California. Hopkins said in an interview for last year’s Powerlist™: “I had a smaller team based primarily… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Deborah Hopkins
Month: December 2013
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Bill Maris
As managing partner of Google Ventures, Bill Maris has rapidly established search engine Google’s independent corporate venturing unit as an investment force, securing a mandate to deploy $300m a year, having originally been provided with $100m a year in 2009. Silicon Valley admires Maris’s resources, with Felicis Ventures’ Aydin Senkut telling the Wall Street Journal:… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Bill Maris
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Claudia Fan Munce
Claudia Fan Munce, managing director at US-listed technology company IBM’s Venture Capital Group, has taken a leadership position for the industry as the first corporate venturing board member of US trade body the National Venture Capital Association and is one of the most vocal advocates of the creation of “a corporate venturing community”. This endorsement… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Claudia Fan Munce
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Ralf Schnell
As chief executive, Ralf Schnell has overseen a transformation of Siemens Venture Capital (SVC), the corporate venturing unit of the Germany-based industrial corporation, repositioning its focus entirely after he took it over in February 2005. It has now grown to more than €1bn ($1.3bn) under management. In his more than seven years in charge of… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Ralf Schnell
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Hugo Shong
In 1993, as managing editor of Electronic Business Asia Magazine, Hugo Shong, founding general partner of IDG Capital Partners, assisted IDG’s founder, Patrick McGovern, in establishing the $50m IDG Capital venture fund in Beijing, Shanghai and Guangdong, when the Chinese venture market was largely overlooked by investors. McGovern said in a Global Corporate Venturing profile:… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Hugo Shong
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Nagraj Kashyap
Nagraj Kashyap, senior vice-president of ventures and innovation at US-based semiconductor company Qualcomm, was raised in New Delhi, India, moved to the US in 1992 to gain a master’s degree in computer science from University of Texas, Austin, and never left. He joined Qualcomm Ventures in 2003 and oversaw the North America ventures team until… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Nagraj Kashyap
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Charles Searle
Talking at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium last year, Charles Searle, who runs internet investments for South Africa-based media company Naspers, spoke of “the halo effect” created for the business’s corporate venturing operations when it backed runaway success story, China-based internet company Tencent. Naspers owns large stakes in Tencent, and in London Stock Exchange-listed internet… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Charles Searle
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Arvind Sodhani
Perhaps the greatest sign of a corporate venturing unit’s success is when it can gain the backing of its next chief executive. Arvind Sodhani, president of US-listed semiconductor company Intel’s corporate venturing unit, Intel Capital, secured this feat when Brian Krzanich, the chipmaker’s incoming chief executive declared himself “a big fan” of Intel Capital’s Global… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Arvind Sodhani
Great people shape the industry
As corporate venturing has begun to garner more and more headlines over the past five years, the people on this list have made this happen. This magazine is our second look at the biggest names in the industry, and we have attempted to reflect who the most important players are. Perhaps a mark of the… Continue reading Great people shape the industry
Heyday celebrates first day
Automatic journal-keeping app Heyday, backed by Google Ventures as part of a $2m seed funding round in 2012, officially launches.
Dell Ventures establishes $300m fund
Dell Ventures has ramped up its commitment to corporate venturing by establishing a $300m Strategic Innovation Venture Fund focused on storage, cloud computing, big data, data centres, security and mobility.
Google goes with YieldMo
Mobile advertising technology startup YieldMo raises $8m series B financing led by Google Ventures, impressed by its premium mobile advertising model.
Cleardata hits it off with Merck
Healthcare cloud computing startup Cleardata Networks raises $14m series B, closed for a second time to include Merck Global Health Innovation Fund, aiming to maximise growth opportunities in the rapidly growing health information technology (HIT) cloud computing market.
Canary Wharf Group to support Code Club
Canary Wharf Group (CWG), the UK-based property company which developed and owns the Canary Wharf financial district in London’s docklands, has agreed to provide financial sponsorship to Code Club, a nationwide network of volunteer-led, after-school coding clubs, for it to launch coding classes for approximately 600 primary school students in the local community of Tower… Continue reading Canary Wharf Group to support Code Club