Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum and founder of Carbon International, explores trends in clean-tech.
Month: September 2014
Gaule: Claudia Fan Munce, IBM VC
Andrew Gaule talks to Claudia Fan Munce, managing director of IBM Venture Capital.
Using corporate incubators and accelerators to drive disruptive innovation
A look at how corporates are operating their accelerators and incubators, by Trident Capital’s Evangelos Simoudis.
The digital premium
Victor Sunyer looks at the digital space and telecoms operators.
Applied’s Tanghal: semiconductor investment
Eileen Tanghal, managing director, Applied Ventures, looks at semiconductor investment.
SVB’s Isacke: Tech needs more women leaders
The first monthly column by Tracy Isacke, managing director, corporate venturing, Silicon Valley Bank.
Media venturing booms as eyes shift to mobile
Our annual look at the media sector, with interviews with top executives in the sector including Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments’s Urs Cete [pictured]
Telecoms groups dial into technological change
Our annual look at the telecoms sector, with market participants including Swisscom Ventures’ Dominique Megret [pictured].
Understanding corporate venturing: a road map
We are currently asking for advice from the market about what trends we should be exploring in our forthcoming corporate venturing brief.
Skyword secures $11m from Cox Media
Cox Media made its third investment in the marketing company, which has also acquired video content platform Vidaao.
BMW forms parking app partnership with Parkmobile
The automotive company also invested an undisclosed, but “significant” amount in the parking payment app developer.
Western Digital makes $10m strategic investment in Amplidata
The hard disk drive producer joins existing investors in Amplidata that include Intel, Swisscom and Quantum.
Zirx spots backers for $6.4m series A
The valet parking start-up will use the cash, provided by investors including Wells Fargo-backed Norwest Venture Partners, to expand geographically.
Intel takes part in $7.3m round for Webinar.ru
Semiconductor company Intel’s corporate venturing unit invested alongside Flint Capital, VTB and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development.