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It seems a brave request for money to be talking about further education startups
Nathan Grawe, an economist at Carleton College in Minnesota, a few years ago predicted US college-going students would drop by 15% between 2025 and 2029 and continue to decline by another percentage point or two thereafter given the marked drop in births after the global financial crisis struck in 2008.
Delivering agriculture
One billion people work in agriculture delivering, since 1961, an increase of more than 30% in food supply per person.
Temasek’s $500m strategic partnership with LeapFrog Investments
It is the first significant initiative from Singapore state-backed investor Temasek’s new CEO-designate but the $500m strategic partnership with UK-based impact investor LeapFrog Investments is a powerful statement.
#justsaynotofomo
#justsaynotofomo is a hashtag that has yet to take off fully but Michael Jackson’s latest post on European startups raising $20m with no deck shows “Silicon Valley really is a state of mind now.”
Choose To Challenge
The theme for this year’s International Women’s Day today is “Choose To Challenge”.
Joby’s $6.6bn reverse acquisition
Bonny Simi, pilot and founder of US airline JetBlue’s corporate venturing unit, read the runes correctly in December when she left to join portfolio company Joby Aviation as head of air operations and people.
New breed of solutions for global challenges
Our most pressing global challenges require a new breed of solutions bringing ideas and strengths together from people with divergent backgrounds.
Could India as the sleeping giant of corporate venturing finally be waking up?
Economic Times of India’s (ET) scoop that conglomerate Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms is finalising a potential $200m commitment to domestic venture capital fund Kalaari Capital could be the signal for a wider local commitment and corporate venturing efforts.
Things are bubbling away for many startups but even more so for the big, listed, tech companies
The K-shaped covid economy, where some companies and individuals do well even if the majority struggle, is shown in a number of ways.
The strategic importance of being on the right side of climate change
Bill Gates’ book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, is a great call to arms for the power of corporate venturing to make strategic change happen for the parent.
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Subsector: industrial chemicals
“Before we have reached singularity developing materials faster does not provide much of an upside, as with the current regulation systems introducing them still takes a decade,” according to George Gogolev, head of Severstal Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Russia-based industrials conglomerate Severstal.
How do you get startups to go from zero to scale?
When you see hundreds if not thousands of ideas and startups, as Jeff Schumacher, founder of New Asset Exchange (NAX), has then you realise a good team and product-market fit takes you only so far.