The shift towards intangibles as a primary value driver and asset in companies may have indeed made borrowing more difficult and/or costly, particularly for small firms but the risks and rewards this more hidden part of corporate life is starting to create opportunities.
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Following Flipkart with Swiggy swagger
How do you follow a $16bn exit? Use your money to keep on doubling down on your winners it seems.
Carbon capture tech pioneer offers hope for the next generation
Carbon Clean Solutions has raised $16m in a round featuring Chevron Technology Ventures following an introduction at 2019’s GCV Symposium.
The best is yet to come
There is something about living in 2020 that has a certain air of the future about it in a way that even 2000 did not.
‘We’ve come a long way’
The former GE Ventures chief executive Sue Siegel’s speech after receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award
Summit glows with tributes and potential
February 2020 issue editorial by James Mawson, editor-in-chief, Global Corporate Venturing
From magic to motivational
In his book review of Ross Douthat’s the Decadent Society: How We Became the Victims of Our Own Success, investor Peter Thiel, says: “A renaissance will require motivational goals.”
It’s a family affair
Family Capital, an online publisher, has compiled a list of the 50 top family or private investment offices that are direct investors in the venture world in 2019.
Israel’s talent blossoms on world stage
Here’s a photo from our managing director for Asia, Tim Lafferty: “I’m sitting in the front row seeing the sun set behind the stage over the Mediterranean Sea and on GCV Israel 2020. We had 300 registrations between us and [co-hosts] Axis.”
The future of venture is here
There has been a ton of announcements about governments, corporations, individuals and, basically, just about everyone, tackling climate change and the other issues identified by the United Nations’ 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Fund creativity offers risks and rewards
There is something about an established business model that is sometimes comforting even if innovation and change is often where more of the excitement lies.
Corporate Venturing: perspectives on the decade to come
Ahead of GCV Israel, Jonathan Tudor was interviewed alongside founder and CEO of Mawsonia (publishers of Global Corporate Venturing) James Mawson to discuss what we can expect from the world of corporate venturing in the coming decade.
US and Japan lead first-timers in January
Ahead of next week’s expected publication of Global Corporate Venturing’s February issue it is interesting to look at the GCV Analytics data on corporations making their first deal last month and where they are coming from.
Look east or west for the best returns?
It is easy for those caught in the UK equally far from China and the US to lean towards American corporate venturing news and updates given the common language and greater marketing and media attention they receive (and not just because we had our GCVI Summit in California last week).