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Global Corporate Venturing | 21,546 followers on LinkedIn. Where Global Innovation and Capital Meet | GCV provides the global corporate venturing community and their ecosystem partners with the...
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Li is a a GCV Emerging Leader and previously worked at Avanta Ventures, until the team pivoted to focusing on venture building and open innovation. https://t.co/vEPsTb2Zui
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GCV Emerging Leader David Li will help the Australian mining firm’s CVC unit identify energy, climate and mining startups.
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The new entity, formed by the merger of Innova360 and Bluebox, will manage $15m across eight Latin American investment funds. https://t.co/besyOeuJLI
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Innova360 powered by Bluebox will have 35 team members and $15m distributed among eight corporate venturing funds across Latin America.
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Are we heading into the next big era of Indian corporate venturing? Some perspective from Zerodha's Rainmatter. #CVC #India #investment
https://t.co/ITMp35jWW9
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Indian stockbrokerage Zerodha was one of the early entrants into the country's startup ecosystem. Now, it says, the next big era of Indian CVC is coming.
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EnBW New Ventures usually invests directly in #startups but occasionally uses "fund of funds" #investments for strategic reasons. https://t.co/b4bwchdmON This is another good example of how experienced CVC investors use LP positions very intentionally.
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Finding funds that are willing to collaborate and engage with their limited partners is one of several pieces of advice for fund-of-fund investing.
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Associated British Ports is the latest corporation to turn to a #startup accelerator programme to speed up its efforts to meet a 2040 net zero target. https://t.co/ZdjhRLyFfU
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UK ports operator Associated British Ports has parted with VC firm Plug and Play to form an accelerator focused on scaling clean energy startups.
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Zendesk is the latest of tech company to set up a fund dedicated to investing in #AI #startups. #CVC #VC #investing
https://t.co/4l0jv8dcsW
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Zendesk Ventures will target startups developing AI technology that can be used with Zendesk's customer service platform, from seed onwards.
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Taiho has a US-based #venture #fund, Taiho Ventures, but this Innovations unit in Japan is focused on #incubating early-stage domestic #healthcare #startups. https://t.co/nAKHmPi35Z
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Taiho’s Japanese university spinout-focused CVC arm’s capital injection came five months after its US sister unit got an additional $100m.
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Looking for an #accelerator programme that would bring your #startup into closer contact with a #corporate partner? Here are five that are recruiting now: https://t.co/gTYWp1DBSc
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Quietly, away from the megadeals of Silicon Valley, Europe is growing its own #AI ideas in Cyber Valley. https://t.co/fpM9OciPVK
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A partnership with UTokyo IPC is the first step to Germany's Cyber Valley taking its corporate-backed AI and robotics research model global.
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Yamato's first #fund backed 14 #startups, from #AI to #satellite technologies. The second will have a similar focus. https://t.co/lbCx4zMhyZ
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Kuroneko Innovation Fund 2 has $51.5m in capital to continue to invest in strategic areas like cleantech, spacetech, fintech, robotics and AI.
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Takuya Hosomura, who spent a combined eight years at Rakuten Capital and Salesforce Ventures, is joining Global Brain. #vc #investor #peoplemoves
https://t.co/FxMqMsnal2
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CVC veteran Takuya Hosomura, who spent a combined eight years at Rakuten Capital and Salesforce Ventures, joined Global Brain as a partner.
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London-based strategic advisory firm Hakluyt exceeded the fundraising target for its first #investment #fund. https://t.co/DmlETE9cPk
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The new fund has already made nine investments in growth-stage companies.
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The Anzu-Green Critical Technologies Fund is looking to back #startups working in artificial intelligence, #quantum science and renewable #energy. #AI #investment #fund
https://t.co/dXCDi0073F
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The lobbying firm’s Anzu-Green Critical Technologies Fund will back defence technology startups and help them work with the US government.
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This is probably one of the best jobs in CVC. And now Bianca Ambrosini has been promoted to investment associate at German liqueur producer Mast-Jägermeister's corporate venture capital arm, Best Nights VC. https://t.co/BF6WPJmlr3
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After a year and a half, Bianca Ambrosini is now an investment associate at German alcohol producer Mast-Jägermeister’s CVC subsidiary.
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Congratulations Derek Idemoto at Cisco Investments — this is the biggest dedicated specialist #AI #fund we've seen announced so far. But is this just the start of more $1bn AI funds? #artificialintelligence #investment
https://t.co/k3q01iBOWl
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Cisco’s fund is double the size of similar initiatives by Salesforce Ventures and IBM Ventures, hailing another step in the AI boom.
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No, of course virtual #therapy isn't going to be as powerful as in-person counselling. But given the shortages in #addiction treatment options, can virtual therapy fill a gap? And is it worth investing in? https://t.co/6Wh5Ja5pKU
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With the need for alcohol addiction treatment far outstripping supply, US startup Monument believes it can help fill the gap with an online platform.
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Definitely speak to someone who has done the transition from #academia to #entrepreneur before. Realise that you don't need to do everything yourself from first principles — a ton of useful advice for would-be #spinout #founders. https://t.co/m66ZKvDCWB
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#Insurers are on the front lines of #climate change and many will go out of business if they don't learn how to navigate the "new normal" of risk. This long horizon fund by Allstate make sense as a way to prepare. https://t.co/Rk3T3KaEJ1
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The corporate venture unit of US insurer Allstate Insurance Company has created a fund focused on financial returns and a more longer term strategic fund.
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Aramco Ventures is one of the world's biggest corporate venture funds, recently beefed up to help Saudi Aramco search for energy transition technologies. Generative AI investments are part of the plan, Mahdi Aladel, CEO of Aramco Ventures told us. https://t.co/szG86l513U
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Aramco Ventures believes generative AI will be part of helping the Saudi oil major meet its 2050 net zero target.
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