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Category: Analysis
How are non-automotive CVCs filling the holes on the road to autonomous vehicles?
Tom Whitehouse, Chairman, LEIF, and Contributing Editor, Global Corporate Venturing evaluates the role of non-automotive CVCs in the auto-tech sector
Who are the Top Corporate VCs in auto-tech?
Tom Whitehouse, Chairman, LEIF, and Contributing Editor, Global Corporate Venturing and Kaloyan Andonov, Reporter, Global Corporate Venturing, discuss the top VC’s in auto-tech
Peloton Technology, Inc. – a case study in multi-corporate VC co-investment
Peloton Technology is a California-based semi-autonomous vehicle technology business. It enables heavy vehicles to link together in a tightly-knit peloton (hence the name) to reduce fuel costs and increase safety. It does through radar-based braking systems and vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Peloton’s roster of shareholders is a who’s who of corporate VC leaders in the automotive sector.… Continue reading Peloton Technology, Inc. – a case study in multi-corporate VC co-investment
The guts and brains of the automobile
Q&A with Tony Cannestra, Director of Corporate Ventures, Denso International America
Corporate venturing and the future of mobility and automotive technology 2016
Foreward by Tom Whitehouse, chairman, Leif, and contributing editor, Global Corporate Venturing
Big Deal: FanDuel and DraftKings to join the same team
The daily fantasy sports companies, backed by several media groups, professional sports leagues and teams, are set to merge.
Corporate Venture in Brasil 2016
The Corporate Venture in Brasil 2015 event in October last year was the launch of a program with a full suite of resources to support corporations doing business and matching partners, deals and technologies. Around 600 leaders and investors joined hosts Apex-Brasil and Global Corporate Venturing for this first industry meeting point in Sao Paulo. Last month was the second annual edition, with the third planned for the week of 23 October 23 next year.
A new energy paradigm
Tom Whitehouse, contributing editor, and chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum, explores trends in cleantech
An upsurge in financial services and insurtech
Sector focus: Financial Services
A month of IPOs
Over October, GCV Analytics tracked 155 deals backed by corporate venturing investors, worth an estimated total of $3.92bn. The US hosted the majority of those deals (86), although some of the top rounds took place in China. China and India ranked second and third with 14 and 9 deals respectively. In October, there was a… Continue reading A month of IPOs
Big Deal: Corporates find Unity
Unity Biotechnology, which raised $116m last week, is the fourth Arch Venture Partners-launched startup to be backed by WuXi PharmaTech.
Corporate Venture in Brasil 2016: Automotive sector insights
UPS, Mercedes-Benz and Yamaha are among the corporates using venture activity to assess technology in the transport space.
Corporate Venture in Brasil: Day Two
The second day of the conference opened with further positive insights from Brasil Ventures’ survey of 68 corporations’ open innovation and venturing interests and approaches, as 77% said they had been developing relationships with startups in the past year. With more than half (57%) having acquired a smaller company, the attitude by senior executives to… Continue reading Corporate Venture in Brasil: Day Two