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The Big Deal: Pangaea expands
The challenge of managing a diverse set of strategic LPs is an area of increasing importance to many venture capital firms.
The Big Deal: Who watches the watchmen?
The corporate venturing groups were certainly impressed by the watchman in this case, as they voted Hijazi’s company the “most investable” among the 15 finallists at the competition, held in partnership with American Security Challgenge.
The Big Deal: Coulomb Technologies
Corporates plan for electric car future.
Success – more than a mnemonic
This year, in all bar one of the awards, Global Corporate Venturing selected a shortlist and the winner was selected by the magazine’s advisory board at the end of March. Editor James Mawson chose the lifetime achievement award.
Brooks’s obstacles and failure signals
This article, the second of two, contains ideas for successful corporate venturing drawn from my experience in operations in corporate companies, start-ups providing products and services to corpo-rates and corporate venture capital investing with an oil major. This article deals with obstacles and failure signals.
Innovative regions: Beijing, China
Capital prospects for accelerated venture growth.
Alternative investments: impact investing
This is the second in a bimonthly series of articles about the personal alternative investments markets available to the professional corporate venturer. This section in Global Corporate Venturing magazine looks beyond our readers’ day jobs at how they manage their time and wealth using the same skills of insight, trend analysis and managing risk they bring to their professional careers.
IBM highlights ‘era of smart’
In this so-called era of smart, companies, coun-tries and individuals will be judged by how they apply knowledge to create value. For US-listed IBM, which coined the term era of smart, its own value will be created from amplifying innovation and creating technology and a platform for others to help increase the abilities of individuals… Continue reading IBM highlights ‘era of smart’
Deal analysis: April 2012
These pages summarise last month’s deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement. To report a deal or add your data, email Toby Lewis at tlewis@globalcorporateventuring.com
The Big Deal: NanoH2O, a drinking opportunity
A trend to watch for much of this year will be corporates coming in to lead rounds for exciting new technologies of a capital intensive nature. For contrarian corporates getting in, while others are pulling back, the opportunity is promising.
The Big Deal: Multi-track research and development (R&D)
The multi-track element signifies Astellas is developing its innovation toolkit – including R&D, venture-backed entrepreneurs and licensing – so various units can work relatively independently on similar medical problems and leave it up luck and judgement as to which one might work and then be distributed if successful enough.
IBM highlights ‘era of smart’
For US-listed IBM, which coined the term era of smart, its own value will be created from amplifying innovation and creating technology and a platform for others to help increase the abilities of individuals and institutions.
The Big Deal: Cynics and Quantenna
The $79m oversubscribed up-round for Quantenna, comes after corporate venturing units played a part in putting the wi-fi chip company on a path to success.