With shortages in labour and resources in the US healthcare system, medium-sized funds have a unique role to play to bridge the gaps.
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Corporate AI funds: The list
Wondering which corporate venturers have specialist investment funds for artificial intelligence? Here is the list of traditional funds and new units, offshoots and accelerators.
Agtech investors keep focus on sustainability despite tough market
Sustainability is ‘critically important’ in agriculture tech, but startups need to use new technologies like AI to balance it with cost reductions, say corporate VCs.
What corporates are getting wrong about implementing AI
Too many corporates expect too much, too soon from their AI investments. Patience, strategic thinking and cultural change are crucial.
Updated: Nine more spacetech startups for your radar
Investors — particularly corporates — have increased backing for spacetech startups in the past five years. Here are the new entrants catching their eye.
TechEnergy Ventures is on the hunt for hard assets
With a focus on hardware, the unit sees huge opportunity to help its parent company develop cleantech assets.
Fidelity’s CVC targets better investment tools with AI-plus-human help
We’re entering a new age of highly personalised and democratised financial services, says Fidelity International Strategic Ventures’s Alokik Advani, but we still want our hands held.
Sabancı uses VC arm to push into the US renewables market
Sabancı is building a multi-gigawatt renewables portfolio, and Sabancı Climate Ventures is helping find US and European start-up technologies to plug in.
How to get startups plugged into a large corporation
Design the strategy from the ground up, find out what doors to knock on, and be quietly persistent.
Energy transition is pushing mining companies to innovate faster, says Vale Ventures head
Bruno Arcadier says scaling up startups to handle the vast volumes of the mining industry is a key challenge.
24-fold increase in Japanese corporate venture capital in the past decade
A growing wave: corporate-affiliated capital for startup investments has gone from $140 in 2013 to $3.4bn according to a recent survey.
Latin American innovation firms team up to catch market boom
Seven years ago the market was nascent, now even smaller corporates want to tap startup style innovation. Innova360 and Bluebox merged in part to make the most of that wave.
Focus and evolve – what to remember to help corporate accelerators survive and thrive
Communication, careful selection, laser-focus on alignment, and openness to change are some of the most important ways to make sure your accelerator doesn’t go bust.
The normal venture cycle isn’t fit for the healthcare industry
Healthcare needs value-add more than capital, says Echo Health Ventures CEO Rob Coppedge