Assessing the potential for Experian’s investments in early-stage innovators

Osage University Partners talks to three experts on finding the right staff.

The challenges around international tie-ups.

Because senior management may have a deep understanding of the sector and the specific needs of the corporate sponsor, it seems easy to assume that involving them in the selection process will help the corporate venture capitalist (CVC) pick the right startups to support.

The movement for venture capitalists to adopt a gender strategy is growing in size and influence. In 2018, there were 87 private funds deploying capital with a gender lens, up from 58 the year before. 

With trade talks between the US and China running hot and cold, it is easy to get sucked into daily trade war updates with their unexpected tariff announcements.

Setting up a corporate venture capital (CVC) fund can be one of the most efficient and effective ways to attract external innovation to a large enterprise. Done wrong, it can also be a colossal waste of money, brains and time.

Corporate venture capitalists’ growing role in financing innovation is undeniable. In 2018, according to CB Insights, CVCs invested $52bn in US startups, an historic high and more than triple the $15.2bn they invested in 2013.

Ahead of this month’s launch of GCV’s Diversity and Inclusion report, experts on the GCV Leadership Society D&I committee share their journeys

The news of BMW CEO Harald Krüger’s impeding ‘retirement’, which broke in July, was hardly a shock, as the writing was on the wall for years.