It is a little more than 10 years since Sir Ken Robinson gave his TED (Technology, Entertainment and Design) talk, Do schools kill creativity? Forty million people have since watched him make what TED calls his “entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity”. Sir Ken concluded… Continue reading Educating entrepreneurs at an earlier stage
Month: September 2016
DFIs have a role to play in the venture capital industry
Regional report: Nigeria
Building a startup community: the case of Bogota
Regional report: Colombia
The top nine reasons why most startup accelerators fail
Comment from Andy Cars, founder, Lean Ventures, and serial entrepreneur turned adviser
A collaborative approach to supporting innovation
Comment from Gillian Youngs, creative and digital economy specialist
The lifecycle of corporate venture capital
Comment from Song Ma, assistant professor of finance, Yale School of Management
Corporate venturing strategies to foster innovation
Comment from Mark Fenwick, associate professor, faculty of law, Kyushu University, and Erik Vermeulen, head of governance, Philips Lighting, and professor of business and financial law, Tilburg University
Mining returns from a strategic investment agenda
Andrew Gaule talks to Brian Lowry, investment manager, Caterpillar Ventures
Preparing for the media revolution
Profile: Bertelsmann
Media enters virtual reality and telecoms gets smarter
Sector focus: Media & Telecoms
Away packs up $8.5m
The high-grade luggage producer has now secured $11m in total, closing a Global Founders Capital-led series A round that included Comcast Ventures.
Corporate venturing deal net: 5-9 September 2016
US-based sales productivity software provider Octiv secured $4.75m yesterday from investors including GE Ventures, General Electric’s corporate venturing unit, as well as Greycroft Partners, High Alpha Capital and Allos Partners. Founded in 2010 as Tinderbox, Octiv had previously raised $12.3m from investors including Allos, Greycroft, High Alpha, FundersClub, Hyde Park Venture Partners, according to press… Continue reading Corporate venturing deal net: 5-9 September 2016
News round up 12 September 2016
A round up of all the latest news on www.globalcorporateventuring.com for our subscribers.
The potential to be the next global centre of innovation
Regional Report: India