Saemin Ahn, head of Rakuten Ventures, talks to our reporter Kaloyan Andonov about the unit, bitcoins and his views on investment and trends in the consumers sector.

Andrew Gaule talks to Arvind Sodhani, president of Intel Capital and executive vice-president of Intel.

New Zealand's startup scene is characterised by active angel investors but companies tend to look outside the country when they reach expansion stage, Banga explained.

Brad Feld, a managing director of venture capital firm Foundry Group, talks to Global Corporate Venturing about his thoughts on corporate venturing, the cycle, how entrepreneurs should interact with corporates, and accelerators.

Canada-based corporates and governments need to match their US counterparts and be less 'Canadian' in order to grow the country's venture capital sector.

A year after it closed its $120m fourth fund, corporate-backed venture firm Enertech Capital Partners is in talks with additional strategic partners as it seeks to continue its 'wellhead to wall socket' funding strategy.

The former general manager of Microsoft Ventures left the unit last week to launch a gaming start-up, Unikrn, and has already received corporate funding interest.

The enterprise software provider will invest $20m in the OpenText Enterprise Applications Fund, and is also open to additional corporate LPs, but the implementation of Canada's venture capital plan is crucial for its closure.

Corporates are funding healthcare companies at an earlier stage to get a foothold, and to offset R&D costs, Jonathan Norris from Silicon Valley Bank told Global Corporate Venturing.

Watch the first set of interviews from speakers at the fourth annual Global Corporate Venturing symposium.