Bristol Myers Squibb and Otsuka Pharmaceutical committing to LSP’s $600m life sciences fund is a further sign of the integration between strategic and financial investors.
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Koch disrupts another industry with InSightec
Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), a subsidiary of Koch Industries, is living up to its name.
Looking past consensus for better results
Venture capital gets a well-deserved bad rap for its general lack of diversity.
Finland’s venture ecosystem shows northern promise
As the snows start melting near the Arctic circle with the spring thaw on its way so there has also been a warming in investor attention to the local entrepreneurs.
Venture moves shows pattern in their travels
There’s been some big moves in the past few weeks with Accenture Ventures adding two managing directors, Tom Lounibos and Jake Kaldenbaugh, to join Michael Redding, and Brittany Skoda leaving Workday Ventures to rejoin investment banking at Morgan Stanley.
Novartis and Google show contrasting approaches to healthcare deals
Two types of healthcare deals and two types of corporate backers.
Waymo’s funding drives autonomous vehicles forward
Congratulations to GCV Emerging Leaders Awards 2020 winner Sherry House, head of corporate development at Waymo, and the team under CEO John Krafcik, for its success in raising $2.25bn in its first external funding round.
Drawing the right lessons from peak activity
Daren Fonda’s excellent article in Barron’s, Venture Capital Attracts the Corporate Crowd, rightly asks why corporate capital is flooding in as deal activity and valuations may be peaking.
DoorDash’s brave flight to market
DoorDash said it was preparing an initial public offering (IPO) and had filed confidential documents with the US regulators as a first step.
Robots get a grip on the future
Those with long memories of robots from television series growing up developed a strong and willing suspension of disbelief at how these machines could struggle with steps or picking up items but still be a threat to the planet.
Award winners step up to greater roles
It did not take long for my colleague, Liwen-Edison Fu to be proven right in the selection process for last month’s Global Corporate Venturing Rising Stars and Emerging Leaders awards.
US should set up a $10bn AI fund
Comment from Ben Lamm, chief executive, Hypergiant
AI comes to the fore
February 2020 AI supplement editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Scoring goals can require plenty of shots
Whether in basketball or football, it has usually been helpful to have more shots than fewer.