In our series of articles Corporate Venturing on the Test Bench, Boris Battistini and Martin Haemmig review and analyse the latest trends
Month: November 2014
Gaule’s QT: Blaustein, Dupont Ventures
Andrew Gaule talks to Michael Blaustein, managing director of DuPont Ventures
Sky Solar lowers IPO target by almost $100m
The solar power provider slashed its initial public offering from $150m to $55.2m after suspending it citing market conditions.
Kelly, BioPacific: The innovation gold rush
How to be truly global in the search for your next nugget – Andrew Kelly, executive director, BioPacific Partners.
SVB’s Isacke: Marketplaces, living in a vertical world
Comment: Tracy Isacke, managing director, corporate venturing, Silicon Valley Bank
SunPower buys microinverter technology provider SolarBridge
SolarBridge, backed by corporate venturing units Constellation Technology Ventures and Shea Ventures, had raised over $100m in venture funding.
Profile: CommerzVentures is latest financial entrant
The Germany-based fund was launched last month with a brief to invest in the most promising fin-tech companies atearly stage before contributing follow-on funding as its portfolio companies grow.
Profile: Ping An makes international push
An interview with Lance Liu, investment manager of Ping An Ventures, one of the three investment platforms for Ping An Ventures.
Profile: Transamerica Ventures bets on New York
Transamerica Ventures, the new corporate venturing unit of Netherlands-based insurer Aegon, made the decision to base itself in New York, reflecting that city’s status as a dominant force in financial services.Georg Schwegler, who joined Aegon to head Transamerica Ventures last year, said: “There is a lot of money coming from New York-based investors into the fintech seed stage, so it makes sense… Continue reading Profile: Transamerica Ventures bets on New York
Finance sees money in venturing
Global Corporate Venturing’s annual look at the finance sector.
Third-quarter deal spree makes 2014 the most active year
A round up of third quarter corporate venturing activity.
Banner year for corporate venturing sealed
Corporate venturing’s engine has begun to roar loud and clear in 2014. Global Corporate Venturing’s data shows that this year has already been more active in terms of number and size of investments as well as in exit activity, as our third-quarter analysis in this issue shows.This frenetic pace of dealmaking is being accompanied by a seemingly… Continue reading Banner year for corporate venturing sealed
Intel Capital puts future on display
The world’s youngest VC-backed entrepreneur (pictured with Intel Capital’s Arvind Sodhani and Bloomberg West’s Cory Johnson), an Israeli start-up veteran backed three times by Intel Capital, augmented reality, European competition rules, and Larry Summers commenting post the mid-terms, all feature in our round-up of the chipmaker’s Intel Capital Global Summit.
Randstad sets fund size at $62m
The staffing company’s corporate venturing fund, launched in March this year, is sized at $62.4m, it told TechCrunch.