Cisco is the main news of the past week but there’s been plenty of fund launches and deals struck.
Category: Analysis
Breakout sessions popular and lively
Paul Morris, corporate venturing adviser, UK Trade & Investment reviews the breakout sessions at the GCV Symposium 2016.
Corporate accelerator expansion gathers velocity
Toby Lewis, chief analytics officer, reviews the GCV Corporate Accelerator Unconference 2016.
Profile: Johnson & Johnson
As part of our healthcare sector focus, Thierry Heles takes a closer looks at Johnson & Johnson, and their rebranded Johnson & Johnson Innovation division.
Record year for life sciences
Sector report: Healthcare
Steps to corporate investment, innovation and collaboration
“When many traditional routes have been exhausted, how does an organisation change the way it does business?”
A slowdown in May
In May, we tracked 103 deals involving corporate venturing investors worldwide. The deals were worth an estimated total of $4.71bn. Geographically, the majority were in North America, mostly the US, and Asia. The leading corporate investors in terms of number of deals were Intel, International Data Group and General Electric (GE). However, in terms of… Continue reading A slowdown in May
Insights from the crow’s nest
The theme from this year’s Global Corporate Venturing Symposium in London last month was “the view from the crow’s nest”. It was chosen thanks to a suggestion by Girish Nadkarni, head of corporate venturing at Switzerland-based industrial group at ABB, that corporate venturing was acting as the crucial insights service to corporate chief executives. And… Continue reading Insights from the crow’s nest
Highlights from the GCV Symposium 2016
After several decades of peaks and troughs, corporate venturers feel they are climbing the slope of enlightenment – by Editor-in-chief James Mawson, news editor Rob Lavine, ?and reporters Kaloyan Andonov, Thierry Heles and Nicole Idar
Analysis: Corporate lead route to exit
Exits with corporate investor involvement are consistently larger and becoming more frequent.
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.
Celebrating the industry: GCV Awards 2016
The sixth annual Global Corporate Venturing awards are a celebration of the industry and how it helps entrepreneurs, the venture ecosystem and parent companies make the world a better place and deliver on their strategic and financial goals.
GCV Award: New Entrant of the Year – JetBlue
Formed in February this year, JetBlue’s corporate venturing offshoot is headed by Bonny Simi, a former pilot with the airline as well as a three-time Olympian. Simi hopes that her unit can help give JetBlue a significant strategic advantage over its competitors, particularly if aviation faces the same disruptive forces as those currently reshaping the… Continue reading GCV Award: New Entrant of the Year – JetBlue