Global University Venturing and sister title Global University Venturing analysed last year’s data to identify the top corporate investors in university spinouts. Looking at global spinout deals, the vast majority of investments by number were made by non-corporations, such as universities, their tech transfer offices and funds, angels, governments or venture capital firms. Of the venture capital firms, the majority… Continue reading Data on corporate-backed university spinouts
Month: July 2015
State support for the early stage
Government involvement helps venture investors State focus shifting towards ecosystem development.
The decade of big data disruption has arrived
New analytics applications help to derive insight from the vast new quantities of data.
Unpanels unveiled
Highlights from the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium unpanels from Paul Morris, director, corporate venture capital, UK Trade & Investment
Symposium highlights
Toby Lewis, editor of Global Corporate Venturing, invited four corporate investors to discuss the recession’s lingering effects, the industry’s state and the relationship between investment units and their parent company. The panel consisted of George Coyle, manager of energy company ConocoPhilips’s corporate venturing subsidiary Technology Ventures; Jon Lauckner, president of automotive manufacturer General Motors’ investment division GM Ventures;… Continue reading Symposium highlights
Digital health hopes building
The high hopes for digital health were boosted last month with the initial public offering of fitness tracking company Fitbit.
Ingram publishes accelerator plans
US-based publishing services provider Ingram Content Group launched an accelerator called 1440 yesterday that will seek out 10 startups for a 14-week programme beginning in September 2015. 1440, named after the year that Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, will provide participants with $30,000 in seed funding each in return for a 10% stake. The… Continue reading Ingram publishes accelerator plans
Alibaba-backed Riverhill supplies $16m to Zhanghetianxia
The supply chain services provider received the money from Riverhill Fund, in which e-commerce company Alibaba is the largest investor.
Merck helps administer $8m for MedCPU
Merck Global Health Innovation Fund co-led the $5m equity portion of the series B round, while Silicon Valley Bank provided $3m in debt financing.
Relay2 crosses series D finish line
The Rogers Commuincations-backed wifi services provider has closed its series D round at $13.5m after securing an additional $3.5m in funding.
Aveni conducts $13.5m to scale semiconductor manufacturing
Previously known as Alchimer, the semiconductor technology company has raised $13.5m from investors including Panasonic and Air Liquide.
Workday hits Tidemark in $25m round
The business planning software company has now raised $105m altogether, after closing a series F round led by human resources software firm Workday.
Workday extends corporate venturing activities with new fund
Workday Ventures will fund machine learning and data analysis startups, and has revealed the identity of its first four portfolio companies.
Wish clasps Locket
Media company Turner Broadcasting has exited Locket, a lockscreen app development startup that had raised almost $4m in funding.