India online risk services company, Aujas, has secured more backing from existing seed backer IDG Ventures India and attracted new investors including Rajasthan Venture Capital Fund and IvyCap Ventures in an undisclosed series B round of funding.
Month: December 2013
Beneficial public and private partnerships
That the GIB has formed such an extensive partnership across boundaries and with different corporations and investment groups with varying objectives and approaches to clean-tech is positive.
Balfour Beatty backs energy company
Balfour Beatty, a UK-listed infrastructure construction company, is using its corporate venturing unit to provide half of a £24.8m ($40m) equity investment to form a local start-up to use recovered wood as a source of energy to homes. Balfour Beatty Investments, formerly known as Balfour Beatty Capital Group and a provider of public-private partnerships for… Continue reading Balfour Beatty backs energy company
Investing in fin-tech – a good price to pay
The potential of fin-tech companies to earn substantial returns, and the capacity of the financial industry to be disrupted, marks out this space as one of the most attractive investment opportunities currently available.
Boosting strategic value by focusing on financial goals
Corporate venturers are in a good position, equipped with technical and market expertise, as well as customer access through their respective corporations.
Collaboration, community, connections
The programme includes participation in the IBF Corporate Venturing and Innovation Partnering Conference with facilitation and additional quality contacts provided by our years of attending and running discussions at the event. To find out more about the 2014 programme running from February 10-14 and the Global Corporate Ventur-ing dinner go to www.corvennetworks.com or email andrew.gaule@corvennetworks.com.
Gaule’s Question Time: John Suh, Hyundai
Gaule: Give a brief description of what you do, the purpose of your venture fund and when it was formed. Suh: Hyundai Ventures is Hyundai Motor’s US corporate venturing and partnering office in Menlo Park, California. Hyundai Motor invests from its balance sheet. It opened its corporate venturing operations in Korea in 1999 and launched Hyundai Ventures in January 2012. We… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: John Suh, Hyundai
Year End Survey
Respondents to our year end survey seemed generally enthused by the pace of technological change and the way that technology is rapidly changing the markets in which their parents operate.
2013: a great year in corporate venturing
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Dell Ventures charged with renewed ambition
Dell Ventures, Dell’s strategic investment arm, has ramped up its commitment to corporate venturing by establishing a $300m Strategic Innovation Venture Fund. The new fund incorporates Dell’s existing $60m Dell Fluid Data Storage Fund – established in 2012 – while the scope of investments, as well as the existing focus on storage, has been broadened… Continue reading Dell Ventures charged with renewed ambition
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Bruce Niven, Aramco Energy Ventures
Bruce Niven became chief investment officer at Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures this year but has worked at the unit for more than two years. He was previously director of clean-tech venturing and corporate development at Japan-based trading and investment company Itochu. Before that he was founder and managing director of mass interactive events application company… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Bruce Niven, Aramco Energy Ventures
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Bruce Niven, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures
Bruce Niven became chief investment officer at Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures this year but has worked at the unit for more than two years. He was previously director of clean-tech venturing and corporate development at Japan-based trading and investment company Itochu. Before that he was founder and managing director of mass interactive events application company… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Bruce Niven, Saudi Aramco Energy Ventures
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Daniel Heaf, BBC Worldwide
Daniel Heaf was made executive vice-president and managing director of consumer digital at UK state-owned broadcaster BBC in March, after two years as BBC Worldwide’s digital director. Heaf oversees all BBC Worldwide’s global consumer-facing digital businesses and is responsible for driving a unified global digital strategy and consumer vision, in addition to his existing strategic… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Daniel Heaf, BBC Worldwide
GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Richard Erskine, Statoil Technology Invest
Richard Erskine, head of Norway state-owned Statoil’s corporate venturing unit, moved to the oil major last year from venture capital firm Energy Capital Management (ECM). ECM had managed Statoil’s portfolio companies but the oil major brought new and some existing deals back in-house under Statoil Technology Invest as the venture firm picked up a mandate… Continue reading GCV Powerlist™ 2013: Richard Erskine, Statoil Technology Invest