Phuthi Mahanyele-Dabengwa, CEO in South Africa of local media group Naspers, in May last year said: “Food security is of paramount importance in South Africa.”

Creating a two-sided market is hard. Investors want to see quality dealflow while entrepreneurs want to know enough capital could be available if their pitch is right.

It takes months of hard work to prepare for the third GCV Digital Forum as the Festival of Corporate Venturing.

In the world of innovation, US-based photocopier Xerox is famous for its Palo Alto research Center (Parc) that developed ideas and concepts Apple famously took on with its early computers.

This is just the tip of the iceberg for women in venture capital, according to Christina Riboldi, organiser of the regular series of meetings.

There was a record number of corporations making their first venture investment last year, according to GCV Analytics in its World of Corporate Venturing 2021 annual review.

A lot of focus in large acquisitions is on the price paid, the entrepreneurs’ stories and returns to the investors and their added-value support to the portfolio companies.

Claudia Fan Munce, former head of IBM Ventures and now senior adviser to venture capital firm NEA as well as a board director of public companies, reflected in her keynote before yesterday’s GCV Rising Stars and Emerging Leaders Awards on how far the corporate venturing community has come over the past decade and opportunities that lie ahead in partnership with other investors.

People moving less and using digital communication tools creates different challenges for real estate investors.

Reading last month’s headlines, such as “Airbnb soars to near $100bn valuation as shares more than double in IPO [initial public offering]. Company trades at over $150 a share from initial $68 price,” and you would be hard-pressed to say there had been the covid-19 disease limiting travel around the world over the past year.