Companies increase amounts and role in entrepreneurial investment syndicates and new and existing units prepare for further growth.
Category: Analysis
Venturing programmes live longer
Average life of a corporate venturing programme increased from 2.5 years to 3.8 years over the past decade as they become a recognised part of the innovation toolkit.
Exciting times lie ahead as VC industry shrinks
The number of maturing venture capital funds heavily outnumbers those being raised as the industry contracts.
Innovative regions: Ireland
The Emerald Isle promotes its venturing strategy in the first of a new series of places trying to support its entrepreneurial ecosystem.
Deal round-up: November 2010
Click on this table for a summary of November 2010’s deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement.
Profile: Hartford Ventures
Corporate venturing puts US-based insurer Hartford Financial Services Group on a learning curve.
Profile: Citigroup Growth Ventures and Innovation
Pushing global online finance to the next level using corporate venturing and more open innovation at one of the world’s largest banks.
Banks tempt outside investors to help fill funding gap
UK’s main banks set up corporate venturing fund to help meet social obligations.
Case study: Green Dot
Consumer profile changes are driving the new wave of financial services firms.
Institutional investors take the lion’s share
Institutions control more of the equity markets but financial services investors have had poor returns as investors in venture capital funds.
Top 10 venture capital fund managers
Examination of the personal biographies of the founders of the 10 most successful venture capital firms.
Most influential finanical services corporate venturing units
List of top venturing groups in finance sector
Cash flows from financiers
States and financial institutions are relying on venturing principals to fuel economic recovery again after drop in banks and insurers’ interest in venture capital over the past decade.
Deal round-up: October 2010
Please click here for the deal round-up: October 2010. To report a deal in November please contact editor James Mawson by email at jmawson@globalcorporateventuring.com and by phone at +44 (0) 7971 655590.