Part two in a two-part series on sidestepping pitfalls in corporate venturing.
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Gaule’s Question Time: Allegis lets direct experience guide it
As part of a series of interviews with leading venture investors and developers, Andrew Gaule, left, founder of the H-I Network and Corporate Venture Senior Executive Forum, talks to Bob Ackerman, managing director and founder, Allegis Capital (pictured).
Should you raise venture capital?
Entrepreneurs would be better off making money first before taking in venture money at high valuations.
Decade’s first year reveals promise and success
Review of 2010 shows corporate venturing has become a crucial tool for growth and dealing with the legacy of the credit crunch.
Banks tempt outside investors to help fill funding gap
UK’s main banks set up corporate venturing fund to help meet social obligations.
Successful start-ups need clear vision
Betting exchange start-up Smarkets is looking beyond angel investors for corporate venturing involvement.
Opportunities to ride the Chinese dragon
China and emerging markets offer opportunities as well as threats.
Technology security acquisitions are rocketing
Information technology (IT) security acquisitions are increasing in pace as companies face attacks.
Top 10 reasons to avoid corporate venture capital
Part one in a two-part series on sidestepping the pitfalls of corporate venturing.
Cash the ultimate commodity while venturing is far harder
Banks and insurers might have retreated from venture capital in developed economies for financial reasons but this allows strategic goals to be set.
The UK’s new Business Growth Fund
In July, six of the UK’s largest banks joined forces with the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) to form the Business Finance Task Force. The Task Force – consisting of Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Royal Bank of Scotland, Santander and Standard Chartered – was set up to examine how banks can do more to help… Continue reading The UK’s new Business Growth Fund
IT security going from hot to ‘hotter’
For all the talk about a chronic shortage of exits for venture-backed companies, there is one segment of the venture-technology ecosystem that appears to be posed to go from hot to “hotter”.
Reed Elsevier Ventures: market maps showed way to generate dealflow
Reed Elsevier Ventures is one of the few corporate funds set up in 2000 – the heady days of the dot.com bubble – to be celebrating its 10th anniversary this year. Diana Noble, a former partner at Schroder Ventures (now Permira), was persuaded to lead it and first to join her was Tony Askew. Kevin Brown followed as a principal and was promoted to partner the next year. Noble stepped down as managing partner at the end of 2004 to join the William J Clinton Foundation and Askew took the reins. The three of them discussed with editor James Mawson in last month’s issue how the venturing team was originally architected and, in this second article, Reed Elsevier Ventures’ approach to investing.
Reality of decision-making at big companies unveiled
Software AG, the second-largest software vendor in Germany, examined how and whether to set up a corporate venturing unit and decided against it a few days before gaining expected ratification from the full board. Global Corporate Venturing editor James Mawson spoke to Frederic Hanika, senior vice-president and head of mergers and acquisitions.