Comment from Dominic Hofstetter, director of capital and investment, Climate-KIC
Category: Comment
How the covid crisis will evolve LatAm’s technology adoption
Comment from Brian Walsh, head, WIND Ventures
Challenger universities: The case for innovation
Comment from Mario Barosevcic, principal, Emerge Education
Key IP considerations in corporate venture capital transactions
Comment from Vejay Lalla, Ian Goldstein, Christopher Joslyn, Jonathan Sagot and Ryan McRobert, Fenwick & West
Deciding what to build, when and by whom
May 2020 issue editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Spending correctly to save our future
The only solution is for money to prop up innovation and productivity.
SoftBank’s car crash results is still painful to watch
Softbank’s $13bn annual loss was the biggest in its history.
Corporate innovation with venture studios
Comment TM Ravi, managing director, The Hive
Handling down rounds is “complicated, risky and adversarial”
It has been nearly a decade since down rounds in venture capital – effectively one where the value of the startup has declined even though more money has gone into the business – were common.
Intel strives for new heights
Intel Capital is the poster child for a resilient corporate venturing team.
US watches as China advances
Having founded the multi-lateral and monetary system at Bretton Woods in 1944, the US added effective control of the payments system from the 1970s through credit and cash machines around the world allied to bank transfers and the deepest capital and advisory markets. Americans are keen for this to remain.
Powering the future
For those fascinated by charts of coronavirus expansion at various infection rates over the past few months, here is a more positive one.
Understanding down-market venture deal structures
It has been quite some time since the venture market has seen regular usage of down-rounds, cram-downs, pay-to-plays and similar down-market financing structures, but it is likely that the road ahead will be paved from time to time with these more complicated deal structures as compared to the straight forward structures and terms of the long up-market of the last decade.
From small to big in a flash
We live in a world of seemingly the very large and the very small.