Many of the companies have financial and corporate venture backers, as businesses seek alternatives to single-use plastics.
Startups are always anxious to know if their investors can provide follow-on funding. The good news is, corporate investors a putting aside good reserves for this.
SoftBank helped the on-demand laundry service push its valuation past $250m, a rare occurrence in a sector that's so far failed to catch fire.
Corporate investors must not lose sight of who they are serving, ie the startup, Jim Adler, head of Toyota Ventures told the GCV audience in Tokyo.
Failure rates are high for VC-backed companies, and corporate-backed startups are not exempt. But which have been the biggest recent flops that left corporate investors licking their wounds?
Corporate investors are backing a host of elder-care startups, from those seeking Parkinson's cures to apps aiding mental wellbeing.
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There is no let-up yet in the investor pullback, but a series of big energy fundraises helped keep total deal value from falling further.
The value of VC deals in China tumbled 44% to $62.1bn by the end of October, but energy-related startups are still raising big rounds.
Several new entrants to the corporate venturing sector could keep the number of active units above their pre-pandemic highs.
Investors either focus almost exclusively on investments where there was a commercial deal, or avoid any requirement at all.
The shutdown of Argo.AI is a blow to the self-driving dream (and a loss for its carmaker backers). But is transport CVC merely maturing?
Startups are always anxious to know if their investors can provide follow-on funding. The good news is, corporate investors a putting aside good reserves for this.
SoftBank helped the on-demand laundry service push its valuation past $250m, a rare occurrence in a sector that's so far failed to catch fire.
Failure rates are high for VC-backed companies, and corporate-backed startups are not exempt. But which have been the biggest recent flops that left corporate investors licking their wounds?
Corporate investors are backing a host of elder-care startups, from those seeking Parkinson's cures to apps aiding mental wellbeing.
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