Nutanix, a US-based provider of web-scale IT infrastructure for datacenters, has raised $101m series D financing co-led by Riverwood Capital and SAP Ventures, the growth stage investment firm affiliated with Germany-based software company SAP. Morgan Stanley Expansion Capital and Greenspring Associates also participated in the round as new investors, joining existing investors Lightspeed Venture Partners,… Continue reading SAP co-leads $101m financing for $1bn Nutanix
Month: January 2014
Siveco management buy back Intel Capital stake
The management of Romanian software company Siveco “go marching on own new way” and buy back Intel/Enterprise Investors’ minority stake.
J&J opening incubator in Israel
US-based pharmaceutical multinational Johnson & Johnson is opening a new biotech incubator in Israel, expected to be operational early this year.
Alternative investment: art
Marianne Abib-Pech explores the surprisingly rampant performance of iconic artworks.
Innovative region: Kazan, Russia
Kazan, a Russian city in Tatarstan, two hours drive from Moscow, is pulling out all the stops in an effort to become the go-to computer science cluster in eastern Europe.
Comment: Effective strategic venturing
Samuel Shafner, of law firm Burns & Levinson, considers how to formulate a productive corporate venturing strategy.
Corporate venturing could be made for Africa
Many people talk about innovation these days but few dare to talk about how to fund it. In this article I hope to tackle some options focusing on corporate venturing. In its simplest form, corporate venturing is the investment of corporate funds directly in external, early-stage companies to secure financial and strategic gains. Before I… Continue reading Corporate venturing could be made for Africa
Alternative funding routes
Business development director and entrepreneur Simon Gall profiles less-obvious sources of finance.
Haemmig and Battistini Analysis: management control systems lead to growth
The adoption of management control systems plays an important role in the development of early-stage technology companies, say academic contributors Martin Haemmig and Boris Battistini.
The clean deal: Nexus opportunities for the new year
There is typically far too much optimism around at this time of the year, says Tom Whitehouse. He offers a contrarian dose of reality with some predictions for the year ahead.
Comment: An author’s advantage
The year ahead of us seems fuller of promises than the year just gone. Impact on the world and impact on our-selves is the self-imposed brief for 2014, and I am ready to travel east, west, north and south. Imagine my surprise, when my very first encounter happened in the heart of London. A man… Continue reading Comment: An author’s advantage
Collaboration, community, connections
Many organisations are facing the challenge of new technologies, disruptive business models and the need for new propositions to satisfy new markets to compete with new entrants. A hotbed of innovation and technology driving this change is Silicon Valley, California. It is not the only place in the world driving these changes, but it is… Continue reading Collaboration, community, connections
Gaule’s Question Time: A multi-tool approach
Gaule: Give a brief description of the purpose of your venture, when it was formed and how the process occurs in your organisation. Van de Wouw: Shell Technology Ventures is probably the first cor-porate venture organisation in oil and gas. We started our activities in 1998. We have gone through several phases and formations of… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: A multi-tool approach
Transport industry motors through tech change
Those corporate venturing units in the transport and logistics industries continued to back companies in an effort to look for technological change. Many are braced for significant change to the trans-port industry resulting from wearable computing and the internet of things. Some believe this is a big opportunity for transport companies. John Suh, managing director… Continue reading Transport industry motors through tech change