“WeWork’s Bonkers IPO,” according to Fortune’s daily newsletter, mirrored by sister title, CEO Daily’s “The Weirdness of WeWork’s IPO Filing” as it noted: “If a recession is coming, the WeWork IPO filing… will be a fitting capstone for the peak.” The Financial Times’s analysis, WeWork: You Pay, noted: “WeWork parent The We Company is about… Continue reading Editorial: ‘Bonkers’, ‘weirdness’ and ‘impossible’ IPOs
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Salesforce’s Japan Trailblazer Fund gains traction
Shinji Asada on Salesforce’s engagement with the Japanese SaaS ecosystem.
TDK reads A-OK for ventures
Materials and hardtech will be focuses for the CVC unit, says MD Nicolas Sauvage.
Innovation Growth Ventures is no Innovation Fund clone
GCV Powerlist member Gen Tsuchikawa on Sony and Daiwa Capital Holdings’ new investment vehicle.
Delight Ventures marks its independence
Managing partner Dai Watanabe discusses the unit’s strategy and how it will work with entrepreneurs and DeNA’s employees.
Omron Ventures harnesses innovation to change culture
Chief executive Tomoko Inoue describes her unit’s core interests and how it interacts with entrepreneurs.
Interview: Kévin Monserrat – from Microsoft ScaleUp to Consilience Ventures
Kévin Monserrat spoke to Global Corporate Venturing about how his experience as venture capital relations and dealflow manager at Microsoft for Startups helped him with his new enterprise, Consilience Ventures.
Europe looks to blended finance for impact
Since the start of his mandate in 2014, European Commissioner Carlos Moedas has been in strong support of the setting up of a European Innovation Council (EIC) for breakthrough, market-creating innovation, with a focus on smart funding, smart investment and smart regulation, to make Europe ‘the place to be’ for innovators.”
A lack of vision will come to haunt us all
It seems like only yesterday that Global University Venturing celebrated breaking through 2,000 deals in its database, but at the time of writing we are already at more than 3,200 investments and exits.
Interview: Wendy Lung, IBM Ventures
Wendy Lung, managing director of IBM Ventures, spoke to Robin Brinkworth about being an IBM lifer, how IBM Ventures’ flexibility delivers value for IBM, and the broader corporate venturing ecosystem
Multinational corporates storm the Israeli market
Comment from Eze Vidra, managing partner, Remagine Ventures
Facebook coin brings crypto adoption closer
Comment from Jalak Jobanputra, founder, Future Perfect Ventures
Venture capital desperately needs more governance
Comment from Scott Lenet, president, Touchdown Ventures
Europe’s position narrows as disruption unfolds
Social network Facebook’s plans to launch the Libra blockchain and native cryptocurrency, its custodial wallet and subsidiary Calibra, programming language Move and its governing body the Libra Association based in Geneva, Switzerland, certainly took most of the attention this month.