Comment from Tracy Isacke, managing director, corporate venturing, Silicon Valley Bank
Author: Tracy Isacke
2017 Startup Outlook
Optimism may be tempered by uncertainty but opportunity is plentiful
Keep your eyes on the road
Tracy Isacke, managing director at Silicon Valley Bank, discusses her key predictions for 2017
The innovation economy responds to recalibration
“The fundamentals driving innovation remain strong and investment is still flowing”
How entrepreneurs can change the world
“We do not often enough connect the bottom line to efforts to make a safer world.”
Startups prepare for a new reality
Tracy Isacke, managing director at Silicon Valley Bank, looks to the future of startups.
At the knowledge frontier
As I prepared my 2016 predictions column, I found myself thinking about remarkable new technologies I learned about this year and decided to focus on how “frontier tech” industries are poised to change our lives. Frontier tech is a catchy name for the emerging wave of industries, or reinvention of industries, made possible by the… Continue reading At the knowledge frontier
Seeing innovation where it happens
Last month, I joined corporate innovation leaders from Dell, Honda, SanDisk, Citrix, Hyundai, LG, Sony, Samsung, Salesforce, Uber and investors from Silicon Valley and Europe to hear pitches from 60 startups. Our keynoter speakers were technology evangelist Guy Kawasaki and Oracle executive Luke Kowalski. But this event was a far cry from your typical tech gathering in… Continue reading Seeing innovation where it happens
How the wearables revolution can save lives
There is a growing focus on developing advanced flexible materials, chemicals and manufacturing processes.
Taking the entrepreneurial spirit to the global level
When Muhammad Yunus, Nobel prize-winning founder of the global microfinance movement, spoke at a Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) event in June, he delivered a short yet powerful message – everyone is an entrepreneur. Later in the month, UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon and Dell founder and CEO Michael Dell met at a San Francisco startup incubator, along with other… Continue reading Taking the entrepreneurial spirit to the global level
Taking the entrepreneurial spirit global
In her monthly column for Global Corporate Venturing, Tracy Isacke, examines how best to globalise entrepreneurship.
The decade of big data disruption has arrived
New analytics applications help to derive insight from the vast new quantities of data.
Virtual reality: moving from fiction to fruition
The head of corporate venturing relationships of SVB takes us on a virtual reality tour.
Virtual Reality: Moving from Fiction to Fruition
A look back at Silicon Valley Bank’s recent event bringing together hardware and software developers, entertainment companies, academic researchers and 60 investors to pollinate ideas for moving VR from fiction to fruition.