Nobuyuki Akimoto of NTT Docomo Ventures and Telstra Ventures’ Matthew Koertge explained their units’ differing approaches to CVC in the telecoms space.
Month: May 2016
GCV Symposium 2016: Corporate Venturing 3.0
Andrew Gaule chaired a panel on innovative new value chains that included Sarah Fisher of Johnson & Johnson, Pauline Tay of NRF, Jonathan Tudor of Castrol and Phil Giesler of BAT.
GCV Symposium 2016: Second-Level Investing
How are corporate venture capital funds deploying their in-house research, data analysis, and strategic know-how to spot undervalued investments ahead of the rest of the market? The question was put forth in a panel hosted by John Riggs, senior managing director for strategy, innovation and development at professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers. The ability to unearth… Continue reading GCV Symposium 2016: Second-Level Investing
GCV Symposium 2016: Impact Session
Partnership and collaboration are the keys to building businesses that create positive outcomes for corporations and the wider society, according to Charmian Love, co-founder and director of Corporate Impact X, a corporate venturing project aimed at supporting such investments. Love moderated a panel featuring four speakers: Julia Rebholz, sustainability director and managing director for energy… Continue reading GCV Symposium 2016: Impact Session
GCV Symposium 2016: Contrarian Data Insights
Stefan Gabriel, formerly head of advanced materials and manufactured product group 3M’s corporate venturing unit for six years, hosted a discussion on CVC data.
GCV Symposium 2016: day 1 review
After several decades of peaks and troughs, corporate venturers feel they are climbing up the slope of enlightenment.
SigFig secures $40m of investment
UBS, Santander and New York Life contributed to a round that took the total raised by SigFig, the developer of a robo-advisor platform for banks, to $70m.
GCV Symposium 2016: Lessons on Diversity and Inclusion from the Rising Stars
SVB’s Tracy Isacke spoke to Akira Kirton from BP, Jaidev Shergill from Capital One and Sohaila Ouffata from BMW on the best ways of incorporating diversity into corporate venturing.
GCV Symposium 2016: Disruption in the near and long-term for corporate venturing
Toby Lewis, Global Corporate Venturing’s chief analytics officer, introduced four corporate venturers who were given seven and a half minutes each to convince the audience of their views on how corporate venturing units can deal with disruption. Sue Siegel, CEO of conglomerate GE’s corporate venturing unit, GE Ventures, began the discussion with her argument that… Continue reading GCV Symposium 2016: Disruption in the near and long-term for corporate venturing
GCV Symposium 2016: How Tech and Investing Can Change The World
Corporate venture capital professionals can play a key role in contributing knowledge and support in the global effort to help Syrian refugees, representatives from two non-profit groups told the GCV Symposium today. Joséphine Goube, chief operating officer of Techfugees, and Puneh Ala’i, founder of For The Unseen, were speaking on a panel moderated by Sasha… Continue reading GCV Symposium 2016: How Tech and Investing Can Change The World
GCV Symposium 2016: Tencent’s Innovation Toolkit
Jeffrey Li, the managing director of Tencent Investments who conducted $5bn worth of equity deals in some 100 companies last year, took the stage this morning to talk about its parent company, China-based internet group Tencent. Li, who is also the general manager of Tencent M&A, began by providing an overview of Tencent, a company… Continue reading GCV Symposium 2016: Tencent’s Innovation Toolkit
Motorola Solutions signs up for SeamlessDocs series B
SeamlessDocs, developer of a document digitisation system for local government, has raised $7m, less than six months after securing $5m in its series A round.
Priceline draws in Woomoo
Priceline has acqui-hired app prototyping tool developer Woomoo for an undisclosed amount, giving an exit to internet company Avos.
VArmour calls on Telstra for $41m series D
Telstra Ventures has invested as part of a round that boosted the data and cloud security company’s overall funding to $83m.