Black-focused online streamer Mansa and hip hop content platform Rock the Bells both closed corporate-backed rounds this week, part of the changing face of new media.
Category: Features
GVR Pod: Putting money where the food is
Cargill Ventures unit chief Erin VanLanduit joins the Global Venturing Review to talk about the future of agtech and shifting consumer preferences.
GVR Pod: The future of commercial real estate
JLL Spark’s Raj Singh joins the Global Venturing Review to talk about how data, climate and hybrid work will transform commercial real estate.
Standard Metrics wants to automate the way investors track startup financials
Previous attempts to create financial reporting tech for startups have faltered, but is now the right time for this Slack-backed platform to try again?
Data centres turn to photonics to cope with the demands of AI
Data centres need a revamp to allow for the high-speed data processing artificial intelligence requires — and light is key to the transition.
SR One brings in other drug company investors to join GSK
GSK remains an investor in the new $600m Fund II, but with a smaller financial presence as SR One positions itself to connect startups to multiple companies across the pharmaceuticals sector.
Predatory investors turn screws on startups
Investors have noticed the use of convertible notes spiking over the past six months as an alternative to financing startups with equity and bank debt. But their frequency and unfavourable terms may well come back to haunt startups and investors alike.
Brazil’s Agrosmart wants to save the planet — one farm at a time
The corporate-backed startup informs more 100,000 farmers in Latin America about precise soil and climate conditions to optimise planting.
Data, climate and hybrid work transform commercial real estate
Data from buildings could eventually yield more revenue than the buildings themselves, according to JLL Spark Global Ventures’ Raj Singh
GVR Pod: Helping the parent company transform
Lukasz Garbowski, investment director at Btomorrow Ventures, describes how the corporate venture unit helps its parent diversify away from tobacco.
How to invest in the future of the office: a view from three investors
From holograms and new collaboration platforms to dynamic pricing software, three investors told us what they are backing in the new world of work.
Alternative lenders search for the right kind of growth amid banking crisis
Rising interest rates are knocking down traditional banks — witness Silicon Valley Bank and Credit Suisse — but does this create space for new, alternative lenders or put them also at risk? We asked one of the most active investors in alternative lenders for his view.
How Btomorrow is helping transform its parent’s core business
Btomorrow Venture’s investment director Lukasz Garbowski talks about its mission to help British American Tobacco reinvent itself in an industry going out of vogue.
Continuing the supercycle of defence investment
Global Corporate Venturing editor Maija Palmer talks to Ryan Lewis, partner at SRI Ventures and Tom Park, partner at BDC Deep Tech Fund, about why they are setting up the GCV Defence Council Advisory Board