Portfolio company leaders gather in London from the Anglo-Dutch consumer goods company's corporate venturing unit.
Unilever Ventures’ (UV) exit from market research agency Brainjuicer in April is indicative of the eponymous Anglo- Dutch consumer goods maker’s corporate venturing unit’s focus on selling rather than investing as it reaches its first decade of operation.
Speaking to a gathering of portfolio companies and partners in London, John Coombs, managing director of UV, which was founded in 2002 as the European direct corporate venturing unit of Unilever, said: "Given that we made 15 times our investment in Brainjuicer,…
