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The secret of success for MSD's investment arm: disciplined focus on patients
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (1188+ words) The venture arm of the US pharmaceuticals company run for nearly two decades, through large corporate shifts, because it manages to combine a focuses investment thesis with flexibility to the parent corporation's needs. “I’ve worked for three CEOs and ten…...
The CVC afterlife
3+ day, 11+ hour ago (587+ words) CVCs do not always last forever. The real challenge is ensuring their portfolios, relationships and institutional knowledge survive when the venture unit itself does not. We spend a lot of time worrying about whether corporate venture units will survive and…...
The hidden costs of a stagnant CVC unit
4+ day, 13+ hour ago (625+ words) When a corporation halts its startup investment programme, leaving the portfolio to drift isn't wise. An unmanaged CVC portfolio creates financial, legal and reputational liabilities. TECHNEXUS IS PROUD TO SUPPORT GCV: This piece has been produced as part of a…...
Washburn leaves investor role at Intel Capital
1+ week, 3+ day ago (180+ words) Nick Washburn has left his position as senior managing director at Intel Capital, US chipmaker Intel’s corporate VC arm, to take on a senior operating role in an undisclosed startup. Prior to joining Intel Capital in 2014, Washburn worked as an…...
Corporate venture wants to change the company. But the VC rules still apply
1+ week, 3+ day ago (662+ words) Corporate investment isn't just about making a return from backing some interesting startups. It is about doing that but turning it into an engine for industrial transformation. There is a slightly awkward question lurking behind a lot of the conversations…...
Value Partners creates joint AI and life sciences corporate VC fund with Insilico Medicine and Pudong
2+ week, 9+ hour ago (297+ words) The new RMB-denominated fund will combine investment capital and industry expertise and target the intersection of AI and life sciences as well as applications beyond healthcare such as agriculture and energy. Hong Kong-based asset management firm Value Partners Group, AI…...
LAB7: How the venture building arm of Aramco is helping deep tech startups build and launch
2+ week, 2+ day ago (1331+ words) LAB7, the venture building arm of Aramco, has a dual mission: to help deep tech startup scale and to turn Saudi Arabia's Dhahran province into a destination for frontier entrepreneurship. LAB7, the venture building arm of energy company Aramco, was set up…...
How Hitachi Ventures built a billion-dollar CVC by thinking beyond investment
4+ week, 1+ day ago (131+ words) Stefan Gabriel says it is the deep connections across the corporation that turn investment arms into real drivers of transformation. For Hitachi Ventures, investment is only a small facet of the corporate venture function. It is the deep connections across…...
Naver Ventures: The next AI winners will be bridges, not islands
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (425+ words) As AI reshapes venture investing, Naver Ventures is looking beyond market hype to identify the platform shifts that will define the next generation of technology companies. Artificial intelligence has intensified one of venture capital's oldest questions: how do investors distinguish…...
Is CVC the “fun uncle” of startup investing?
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (259+ words) Corporate investors can play a very specific role in a startup syndicate. If startups, like children, need a village to raise them, the CVC is the uncle helping them set off experimental rockets in the back yard. This was one…...