Exits and investments compete with about $5bn announced on both sides of corporate venturing dealmaking between April and end-June, according to Global Corporate Venturing.
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Strategic investment in UK and Irish technology
In the UK and Ireland, trade and strategic investors (TSI) are a significant part of the venture scene in the technology sector.
MJ Hudson’s Counsel: Part II
Steps on the road to being an adept venturer. This is the second article if a three-part series following a corporate venturer’s evolution from in-house balance sheet investor of pet projects into a full-blown venture capital house with third-party investors.
Keys to an environmental innovation hub
The 2011 Tech Tour Cleantech Summit tests the temperature of the European ecosystem.
Is there a peak age for entrepreneurship?
research from The Founder Institute argues against ageism when it comes to entrepreneurs. the author is 39.
Japan’s corporate venturing ecosystem
Japan’s corporate venturing community at potential tipping point for great expansion.
Why Google Ventures is ahead of the game
Google Ventures portfolio company HubSpot reveals why entrepreneurs rate the corporate venturing unit so highly.
Gaule’s Question Time: SAP Ventures
Gaule: Give a brief description of the purpose of your venture, when it was formed and how the process occurs in your organisation. Sievert: SAP long ago recognised the need to understand new market opportunities as well as disruptive trends in the market. SAP Ventures was founded by Hasso Plattner in 1997 to gain insights… Continue reading Gaule’s Question Time: SAP Ventures
Science and technology fuel the drive to prosperity
Corporate venturing has the opportunity to utilise scientific and technological shifts to boost prosperity.
GE shows open innovation and venturing potential
GE has seen more than 5,000 submissions for its $200m Ecomagination corporate venturing fund. Within a year, and in just one segment it invests in, GE has become one of the world’s largest corporate venturers by committing $134m to more than 20 portfolio companies identified by its Ecomagination Challenge.
US loses corporate venturing lead
Corporate venturing remains too-nuanced an investment class to be definitive but non-US-based fund launches take off while US maintains its pace.
Dragons lie in emerging markets
South Africa-based Fundamo’s exit to exit while US firms pile into Prosper signal where the innovation has already been happening.
What entrepreneurs should know
Insiders view of corporate venturing for start-ups.
The risks investors seem to ignore
US as the centre of innovation at risk unless it replaces collusion with investor competition.