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Category: Comment
Finding innovative partnerships to tackle Covid-19
Desperate times can make for unusual measures.
Industry steps towards its antifragile model at last
Harvard Business Review’s (HBR) review of Black Swans author Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s follow-up book, Antifragile, nearly a decade ago summed up a useful way of responding and bringing flexibility back into decision-making: “Crises and major disruptions are not an abrupt departure from what anti-fragile organizations do continuously — solve problems. Rather than being controlled through rigid command structures, employees at all levels are trained every day to be quick problem-solvers.”
From cancer to chicken nuggets
Cellular Agriculture was spun out of University of Bath in 2016 as the UK’s first startup in the cultured meat space, but its ambitions go far beyond a lab-grown burger.
Digital for Agriculture in Africa
Comment from Nicolas Leyssieux, senior investment director, Bamboo Capital Partners
Eyes on the prize
Agtech supplement March 2020 editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
LatAm’s blind spot comes into view
Global Corporate Venturing has had the honour of partnering with Telefonica’s corporate venturing unit, Wayra, and Spain-based IESE Business School professors Josemaria Siota and Julia Prats to shed light on the Latin American blind spot of collaborations between corporates and startups.
How corporations can help university spinouts cross the valley of death
Comment from Josemaria Siota, IESE Business School, Andrea Alunni, Oxford University and Università degli Studi di Perugia, Paola Riveros-Chacón, Northwestern University, Mark Wilson, Strategic Technology, Bioconsulting, Mattias Karlsson Dinnetz European Commission
Corporate VCs are like basketball point guards
Comment from Scott Lenet, co-founder, Touchdown Ventures
Getting to scale and long-term staying power
Perspective from a CVC practice innovator by Bill Taranto, president, Merck GHIF
Drawing the right lessons from the peak
March 2020 issue editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Impossible Foods husbands $500m F round
Impossible Foods, the US-based plant-based meat producer backed by internet and technology conglomerate Alphabet, has raised $500m – substantially more than the $300m to $400m it had been targeting – in part as the environmental impact of industrial-scale animal husbandry with its heavy use of antibiotics becomes clearer.
Hell in a hand cart or usual correction?
From complacency to fear can happen to people in seemingly an instant.
Drink up for those with an investing edge
Nasdaq-listed soft drinks maker PepsiCo’s agreement to buy US peer Rockstar Energy Drinks for $3.85bn would normally go down in the cannon of tales about how you can make it big without venture capital given founder Russell Weiner owned 85% of the company and his mother and chief financial officer the remainder.