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Corporate VC in 2015: The Trends, Part Two
We continue our look at the defining trends in corporate venturing this year, including sports and online gaming, new media consolidation and funding for online education providers.
Dec 22, 20152015 round up: Salesforce Ventures
Salesforce's corporate venturing unit invested larger amounts in 2015, building up a stable of enterprise IT unicorns as its strategic VC model began to be widely replicated.
Dec 18, 20152015 round up: Tencent
The internet portal invested heavily in food delivery, ride hailing and ticketing as it seeked to build out the services linked to its extremely popular WeChat messaging app.
Dec 17, 20152015 round up: SoftBank
SoftBank is winding down corporate venturing vehicle SoftBank Capital in favour of fewer, bigger investments as it looks to replicate its Alibaba investment.
Dec 16, 20152015 round up: Intel Capital
Intel Capital fell short of the $600m target it set in September but will enter 2016 under new leadership with some promising IPO candidates.
Dec 15, 2015Strategic performance gains importance in CVC comp
There is still concern that those in corporate venturing are not adequately compensated. Three quarters of respondents to the latest J Thelander Consulting said their title and compensation structure failed to appropriately reward them. Jody Thelander is pictured.
Dec 14, 20152015 round up: Alphabet
Google restructured itself under a holding company called Alphabet, but its corporate venturing units continued to invest heavily in healthcare despite GV pulling the plug on its European fund.
Dec 14, 2015Big Deal: Welltok ticks on
Welltok was one of two patient management platforms to raise more than $40m last week, showing the ongoing expansion of the sector.
Dec 7, 2015Big Deal: Jet lands on $350m
The e-commerce startup has raised $570m in less than 18 months but may need to harness the expertise of investors Alphabet and Alibaba to compete effectively against the big boys.
Nov 30, 2015Explore GCV data
The CVC Funding Round DatabaseRealtime data of all startup funding rounds with corporate backers. Full access for GCV+ subscribers.The CVC Funding Round Database
Realtime data of all startup funding rounds with corporate backers. Full access for GCV+ subscribers.
CVC DirectoryFull details of 600+ CVC units globally, including key people, sector focus, preferred investment stage and more. ull access for GCV+ subscribers.CVC Directory
Full details of 600+ CVC units globally, including key people, sector focus, preferred investment stage and more. ull access for GCV+ subscribers.
Corporate venture building reportData from 100+ corporate venture building programmes, including size, budgets, staffing, reporting lines and outcomesCorporate venture building report
Data from 100+ corporate venture building programmes, including size, budgets, staffing, reporting lines and outcomes
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