Brazil’s innovation capital ecosystem is developing at a rapid pace.
Category: Analysis
Big Deal: Group Nine to benefit from Discovery
Discovery Communications’ $100m investment in newly formed digital media holding company Group Nine Media is part of a trend in consolidation as online media moves further toward video.
Record number of exits in Q3
The following material is a snapshot of the data we have collected on investment activity over the past three months. To cross-check and double-check details of reported deals, we have contacted corporate investors around the world.
Brexit, England’s north and the European Investment Bank
Werner Hoyer, president of European Investment Bank, has told finance ministers that the bank is facing tough times with the withdrawal of the UK and the loss of cash looming over the institution. However, last month was a period of big funds and an intriguing number of deals that involved both corporations and public institutions.… Continue reading Brexit, England’s north and the European Investment Bank
Startup competition heats up
Regional report: Germany
Data dive into a decade of corporate venturing exits
Analysis: Exits
Solar, storage and grid technologies power the sector
Sector Focus: Energy
Transport and autotech drive
Over September, GCV Analytics tracked 164 deals backed by corporate venturing investors, worth an estimated total of $6.09bn. The majority of those deals (74) took place in the US, although some of the top rounds were almost evenly distributed between China, the US and other geographies, such as Singapore and Canada. The number of deals… Continue reading Transport and autotech drive
Analysis: New GV’s leader’s steady hand
Two months ago, in early August, Bill Maris stepped down after seven years as head of the GV, the Alphabet venture capital subsidiary formerly known as Google Ventures. David Krane took over as managing partner and CEO and has retained consistency with the Maris-era in the half-a-dozen investments made since the transition. This is perhaps… Continue reading Analysis: New GV’s leader’s steady hand
Big Deal: Alphabet books into Airbnb
Alphabet subsidiary Google Capital’s participation in Airbnb’s recently closed $850m round could presage advice on its newly formed innovation unit, as the company prepares to expand its offering.
Big Deal: AcuFocus captures $66m
The Medtronic and Bausch & Lomb-backed eye care medical device maker has raised $66m in a KKR-led round that took its total funding to more than $215m.
Government and university support venture diversity
There is little question the venture market is becoming larger, but also more diverse. Since the start of last year, 811 European VCs have participated in at least one of the 2,680 venture deals completed across the continent, according to our data partner, PitchBook, which noted that globally, VC fundraising hit a record in the… Continue reading Government and university support venture diversity
Educating entrepreneurs at an earlier stage
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
DFIs have a role to play in the venture capital industry
Regional report: Nigeria