This table (click here) summarises November 2011’s deal activity with a corporate venturinginvolvement.
Category: Analysis
A quiet revolution in clean energy finance
Large corporate players are beginning to show interest in early-stage clean energy companies, both through corporate investment arms and through full acquisitions. Their behaviour displays promising parallels to the early days of the biotechnology industry.
Venture funding fears rise
The venture capital and entrepreneur respondents to a NVCA/Dow Jones survey also tip Barack Obama to win next year’s US election, with Mitt Romney expected to win the Republican nomination.
Corporate venturers rise to prominence
Corporate venturing units are in the spotlight with increased support from the world’s most important venture capital trade bodies, write Toby Lewis and Tim Lafferty
Innovative regions: Canada
Investment levels challenge enterpreneurs.
Most influential Financial, October 2011
Click here to see the list of most influential corporate venturing units by financial services sector parents.
Hudson’s Counsel: part III
Steps on the road to being an adept venturer.
Deal round-up: October 2011
Click here to see the deals struck in October 2011
Firms banking on the underserved for fees
American companies lead corporate venturing approaches to entrepreneurs targeting the poor.
Feature: Financial Services 2011
California leads financial innovation race
Measuring Effectiveness – Part II: Strategic Objectives
In last month’s Global Corporate Venturing, I covered one of the two macro objectives: the financial effectiveness of corporate venture capital (CVC) programs. Now we’ll turn to some principles and implementation guidelines for measuring the strategic effectiveness of the CVC unit.
The Engine for Corporate Growth
The first of three articles in BMG’s Corporate Venturing “How to” Series – part I by Patty Burke (pictured).
Profile: Citi Ventures 2011
The era of the star dealmaker necessarily running a venture capital firm as an amateur manager is increasingly over and into this era of greater professionalism has come US-listed bank Citigroup.
Corporates fail to help portfolio companies
The effect of corporate VC investments on productivity turns out to be “negligible”, according to the report, Venture capital: Policy lessons from the Vico project – a European Union-funded research of 8,370 European high-tech entrepreneurial firms.