#justsaynotofomo is a hashtag that has yet to take off fully but Michael Jackson’s latest post on European startups raising $20m with no deck shows “Silicon Valley really is a state of mind now.”

The theme for this year's International Women's Day today is “Choose To Challenge”.

Bonny Simi, pilot and founder of US airline JetBlue’s corporate venturing unit, read the runes correctly in December when she left to join portfolio company Joby Aviation as head of air operations and people.

Our most pressing global challenges require a new breed of solutions bringing ideas and strengths together from people with divergent backgrounds.

Economic Times of India’s (ET) scoop that conglomerate Reliance Industries’ Jio Platforms is finalising a potential $200m commitment to domestic venture capital fund Kalaari Capital could be the signal for a wider local commitment and corporate venturing efforts.

Bill Gates' book, How to Avoid a Climate Disaster, is a great call to arms for the power of corporate venturing to make strategic change happen for the parent.

You can join our Clubhouse room today at 9am Pacific time (5pm UK, 6pm Europe) for the inside of how we select the news and record our Global Venturing Review podcast.

“Before we have reached singularity developing materials faster does not provide much of an upside, as with the current regulation systems introducing them still takes a decade,” according to George Gogolev, head of Severstal Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Russia-based industrials conglomerate Severstal.

When you see hundreds if not thousands of ideas and startups, as Jeff Schumacher, founder of New Asset Exchange (NAX), has then you realise a good team and product-market fit takes you only so far.

Actor and producer Robert Downey Jr, best known of late for his role as Tony “Iron Man” Stark, in June 2019 at Amazon’s Re:MARS conference, said that “between robotics and nanotechnology, we could clean up the planet significantly, if not totally, in 10 years.”