Service venturing levels take off.
Category: Analysis
Innovative regions: Washington DC, US
Entrepreneurs invade a government enclave.
Deal round-up: January 2012
Despite a general drop in activity, there were many large deals, with a notable number of strategic tie-ups during January.
Case study: Facebook
Facebook advertises its returns to corporations,
SFR games away with G-cluster
The way we use home entertainment is transforming rapidly. Large corporates in the media and telecoms sectors arguably are ensuring they will not be at the reactive end of this trend, as has been evident so far this month. Twelve days ago British Sky Broadcasting Group backed internet television company Zeebox, founded by Anthony Rose,… Continue reading SFR games away with G-cluster
The Big Deal: LanzaTech shows Khosla’s hand
In this Darwinian strategy, LanzaTech’s $55m round last week was a notable example, or big deal.
The Big Deal: AVG’s flotation
Intel-backed AVG preps $125m IPO.
The Big Deal: Lithium Technologies
The deal was the latest in a line of interesting moves by SAP in the cloud, following its backing of Box.net and also a multi-billion dollar acquisition of listed cloud company SuccessFactors.
Most influential Transport January 2012
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Profile: Ecomobilite Ventures
Quartet strike right partnership venturing note.
Industry transported to new partnerships
Getting to the future faster is fundamentally shaking the transport and logistics sector.
Innovative regions: Panama
Climate change means different things to different countries, but for Panama it potentially opens up a strategic rival to its canal for maritime trade to travel instead by way of the northwest passage linking the Pacific and the Atlantic. To forestall a competitive threat that could be decades away from taking significant trade away from… Continue reading Innovative regions: Panama
Corporations the new conductors for entrepreneurs
The scale and scope of corporate venturing fundraising, combined with unique analysis by Martin Haemmig at Stanford University of historical investment data provided by Dow Jones VentureSource, allows the trends to be identified and the reveals the plans of the new conductors of the venture capital investment world.
Deal round-up: December 2011
This table summarises December 2011 deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement.