A combination of perfect venture capital group criteria is found in China’s growing private equity market.
Category: Analysis
The challenge of measuring e-commerce performance
The impact of technology on e-commerce – online sales – is leading to the spread of real-time trading, from stock exchanges to almost every business sector, from airlines to auction rooms and retail sales.
Case study: eCommera
E-commerce comes of age with venture investment in online sale analysis company.
Firms shake on technology partnerships
Once a technology company has decided to break the cultural tendency of employees to undervalue things “not invented here” and to look externally for growth or insights, money is not the only technique to find and gain a collaboration with the other business.
Venture lending oils the entrepreneurial machine
Analysis of the importance of lending to venture-backed companies.
Computers take over the world as promised
Technology-focused corporate venturing deals with a decade of boom, bust and back to growth again.
Riding the wave of technological innovation
Pat Hyek, global technology industry leader at Ernst & Young, analyses the future for technology.
Measuring the strategic value of venturing deals
Observations from studying large multinational companies by
Johann Jakob Napp, Centre for Technology Management, University of Cambridge
Is the venture capital model broken?
Steven Kaplan, Neubauer family professor of entrepreneurship and finance, and faculty director of the Polsky Entrepreneurship Center, at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, and Josh Lerner, Jacob H Schiff professor of investment banking at Harvard Business School, analysis the data behind venture capital’s prospects and finds the future brighter than pessimists expect.
Deal round-up: June 2010
Global Corporate Venturing round-up of last month’s deals involving a corporate venturing unit across all sectors.
Top 50 hi-tech corporate venturing units
Global Corporate Venturing identifies the 50 most influential corporate venturing divisions of information and communication technology equipment and services companies.
Four work in tandem in novel approach to start-ups
Case study of Bicycle Therapeutics, which has two venture capital firms and two corporate venturing divisions in its first round of funding.
VCs work with their corporate peers
Healthcare venture capital firms reap rewards when working with corporate venturing peers.
Move to create in-house venture team vindicated
Merck Serono’s decision to set up a Ventures team has led to 400 opportunities in its first nine months and two deals.