Rob Rosenberg, an alum of Lucent Technologies and corporate spin-out specialist New Venture Partners, has joined eye test technology developer EyeNetra.
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Kuiper starts Innovation Family
Corina Kuiper, who previously held a corporate venturing position at Philips, has co-founded a venture capital support organisation for corporates and startups.
The view from Intel Capital: Sodhani interview
Andrew Gaule talks to Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital and executive vice-president of Intel.
Mobile commerce is ready for prime time
Tracy Isacke, Silicon Valley Bank, discusses what the future holds for commerce.
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Comcast extends Catalyst Fund to San Francisco
The cable provider has hired Laurence ‘Lo’ Toney to run west coast activities for the fund, which invests in minority-led startups.
Rao leaves Google Ventures for journalism return
Leena Rao, who joined corporate venturing unit Google Ventures from TechCrunch in June last year, has left to take up a position at Fortune.
Bosch snaps up free Wheeler
Nick Wheeler has left Flectronics, where he worked with seed funding subsidiary Lab IX, to take up a director role at Robert Bosch’s corporate venturing unit.
Google Capital books passage to India
Google’s growth equity unit is interviewing candidates to head up an office in India, its first outside the United States.
Lessons from the oil and gas front line
Andrew Gaule talks to Kemal Anbarci, vice-president and managing executive, Chevron Technology Ventures.
Services sector booms
Global Corporate Venturing takes its annual look at the services sector.
Ex-corporate venturers form $150m VC firm
Brian Kang, from Samsung Ventures and Connie Sheng from Foxconn are seeking $150m for a venture capital firm that has reportedly secured corporates as backers.
Saunders to evangelise for Microsoft Ventures
Former Blackberry vice-president Alec Saunders has rejoined Microsoft to promote its corporate venturing unit, Microsoft Ventures.
Dharmesh Thakker leaves Intel Capital
Thakker, the managing director that led the unit’s cloud and big data activities, will join Battery Ventures as a general partner at the start of next month.