Steve Case’s bus tour, dubbed The Rise of the Rest, showcases how entrepreneurs are coming up with new products and technologies all across the country, not just in the Bay Area. Of course, while innovation does occur everywhere, new data suggest access to the venture capital needed to support innovation has become more, not less,… Continue reading The San Francisco Bay Area still dominates venture capital
Month: March 2016
Funding your business with corporate venture capital
The first of two articles on sourcing strategic investors
For innovation success, board the corporate train
When it comes to venture funding, backing by corporate venture capitalists – whether solely or in a syndicate – is far better for biotech start-ups than merely receiving support from independent VCs, according to research by Wharton’s Mack Institute for Innovation Management. With their expansive access to experts, market resources, infrastructure and other assets, corporate… Continue reading For innovation success, board the corporate train
GE: an evolving approach to corporate venturing
Many large corporations have made multiple efforts to develop their corporate venturing strategies. New York-listed industrial conglomerate General Electric (GE) has spent more than 20 years working on its own initiatives in this area. Its latest iteration, GE Ventures, has been highly regarded as an industry leader, viewed increasingly by with other groups as a… Continue reading GE: an evolving approach to corporate venturing
The tech way or the highway?
Comment from Marianne Abib-Pech, venture capitalist and writer
Rise of corporates in startup financing with a value add
Comment from Penny Schiffer, SME head of startup initiative, Swisscom.
Industrials roar forward
Sector focus: Industrials
Investing both for today and for tomorrow
Give us a brief introduction to Aviva and the area in which you work. Aviva is the UK’s largest insurance company. We cover products across the insurance landscape – general insurance, life and savings, health insurance and asset management. We are in 16 different countries globally, have 34 million customers, and over the past two… Continue reading Investing both for today and for tomorrow
Technology bringing power shifts
“The relatively low productivity trend could remain constant until something changes.”
Weekly corporate venturing deal net: 29 February-4 March 2016
RentMoola, the Canada-based operator of a rent payment network, secured “over $5m” on Wednesday in an oversubscribed round led by led by utility billing system producer Conservice and backed by the principals of energy submetering product maker Wyse Meter Solutions. The startup is looking to follow the round, which was structured as crowdfunding, with additional… Continue reading Weekly corporate venturing deal net: 29 February-4 March 2016
Eight beds down with Comcast in $6m seed round
Comcast Ventures was among the participants in the first funding round closed by sleep tracker developer Eight.
News round up 7 March 2016
A round up of all the latest news on www.globalcorporateventuring.com for our subscribers.
Fe3 irons out $11m series B
Jianmin, Ping An and InCube Labs all contributed to a round that will fund phase 1 clinical trials for Fe3 Medical’s iron deficiency patch.
Global Fashion Group lays out $20m for Jabong
The Rocket Internet-backed e-commerce holding company has provided $20m to help the fashion retailer carry on running for the next year.