Reduce, reuse and recycle was a helpful way to think about limiting personal impact on the planet (along with the handy advice to take nothing but photos, leave nothing but footprints).
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Michelle Gonzalez joins Microsoft to run its corporate venturing unit
They are the proverbial big shoes for Michelle Gonzalez to fill and a febrile time to do so but the opportunity is also large.
India’s rising economic power
Venture capital funding for Indian firms hit a six-year high of $12.1bn in the first six months of 2021
The biggest change for VCs
A week ago, US-based stock exchange Nasdaq said it would separate its existing marketplace for private company shares into a new unit.
Yamaha Motor plans $100m environment focused investment fund
Japan Inc is waking up to environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics as part of running their businesses and corporate venturing is increasingly the tool to achieve change.
The cleantech 2.0 movement
Join Mach49’s latest Insight Session at the GCV Digital Forum on “meeting the green investing imperative”
The Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist 2021
Congratulations to all the thousands of nominees for the Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist 2021 and especially to the top 100 who gave their appreciation to their teams and portfolio companies in yesterday’s award ceremony.
The world is losing one of its most powerful tools in healthcare: antibiotics
The reason is rapidly rising antibiotic-resistant infections – also called antimicrobial resistance (AMR), as noted in the latest report by the Wellcome Trust in the UK.
Fabric8 emerges from stealth with a non-thermal metal 3D printing technique
Intel Capital is leading the $19.3m series A round alongside TDK Ventures, Schneider Electric’s SE Ventures and Lam Capital.
Crunchbase analysis reports 290bn in total global funding this year
Crunchbase (CB) analysis reported between almost 290bn in total global funding volume so far this year, almost double the whole of last year.
Matthew Ball’s nine-part framework for the metaverse
Great to read Matthew Ball’s latest nine-part framework for the metaverse.
European Commission to launch €3bn female focused fund
The European Commission is being asked to set up a €3bn fund of funds to support women-led general partnerships.
How will covid-19 impact the world of work and innovation capital?
There is plenty of debate about how covid-19 will impact the world of work and innovation capital.
Fintech startups’ value rises to $1.1 trillion
Financial technology startups’ value has risen to $1.1 trillion, equivalent to 10% of the value of the global banking and payments industry, and up from 4% in 2018, according to the Economist’s analysis. The focus has been on banking, insurance and payments, it notes. However, the bigger disruption in some ways is the inclusion of venture… Continue reading Fintech startups’ value rises to $1.1 trillion