Global Corporate Venturing ranks the most influential venture units at media companies.
Category: Analysis
Swisscom Ventures focuses on timing the take-off
Profile: Swisscom Ventures shows how a corporate venturing group can work in the utilities sector to build its reputation as a highly-successful and thoughtful unit.
Fresh demands led to relaunch of DTE Energy Ventures
Profile: DTE Energy Ventures shows regulatory impetus requires one of the US’s largest and most influential energy companies to use venturing as a tool to meet its renewable power goals.
Ostara shows how water utilities reclaim impetus
Case study: Ostara Nutrient Recovery Technologies shows how venture capital firms and entrepreneurs can work with utilities on innovation.
Most influential utility corporate venturing units
Global Corporate Venturing ranks the most influential corporate venturing divisions in the utilities, including telecom operators, sector.
Why energy-focused corporate venturing funds fail
Academic paper identifies reasons behind sector’s poor venturing survival rates.
The power of innovation at utilities
Utilities seek to escape their burning platforms into an era of new products and processes
Using corporate venture debt instead of equity
Many corporations seeking innovation have implemented a venture capital model, but few have taken a serious look at the potential benefits of corporate venture debt.
Capturing the strategic value of investments
Observations from studying large multinational companies
Deal round-up: July 2010
Table of the investments and exits/flotations involving corporate venturing units in July 2010.
Top 20 technology VCs
Most active venture capital groups in technology sector, according to VentureXpert.
Return to the 1999 corporate venturing party
Table of the funds raised the penultimate year befor ethe millennium at the top of the dot.com boom.
Profile: Intel Capital
The name of the game is adding value to become the world’s biggest venture investor.
Case study: Light Blue Optics
Light Blue lasers in on European innovation