Where Global Innovation
and Capital Meet
Sectors Consumer Energy Financial Healthcare Industrial Information Technology Media Services Telecoms Transport

Telecoms

NGP Capital: learnings from a 15-year fund cycle

NGP Capital’s second fund produced six unicorns and top quartile returns while navigating significant change at Nokia, its corporate partner. Managing partner Paul Asel shares 6 insights others can take from the experience.

Feb 27, 2023

Nagraj Kashyap leaves Softbank Vision Fund

The corporate venturing veteran, who founded Microsoft’s CVC, M12, joins the list of recent departures from the embattled fund.

Feb 14, 2023

Verizon Ventures appoints new leaders from inside the company

The appointments are designed to tie the ventures team more directly to the parent’s corporate strategy.

Jan 20, 2023

Armor says farewell to Comcast Ventures

After serving 16 years at Comcast, GCV Emerging Leader Kim Armor plans to focus her attention on climate change.

Dec 22, 2022

MDI Ventures: startup investing in Indonesia is all about being local

MDI Ventures CEO Donald Wihardja tells us why local service providers can prosper where big multinationals can't, and why his firm is set to facilitate a new wave of corporate VC in Indonesia.

Dec 20, 2022

11 companies you probably forgot had CVC units

Remember Twitter's corporate venture fund? No? How about Adidas, Qantas or Disney? We delve into the past to go through some of the units time forgot.

Dec 9, 2022

Daily Deal Round Up: September 26, 2022

FTX-backed PayUp agreed to merge with IG Acquisition while multiple corporates participated in Line Man Wongnai’s $265m series B round.

Sep 26, 2022

Swisscom Ventures raises new $300m fund

Dominique Mégret has exclusively revealed to Global Venturing that the unit closed its fourth main fund in July, with 75% of the capital coming from external limited partners.

Sep 21, 2022

Other News

Telecoms incumbents part of $50bn worth of exits in 2021

Telecoms companies had 91 exits for their portfolio companies last year, with an estimated total value of $50bn.

Sep 16, 2022

What is strategic investing for a telecoms company in 2022?

As telecoms networks continue to expand their services, what even counts as a strategic investment these days? A selection of industry figures tell Global Venturing it can include Web3, ESG and 5G-related technologies.

Sep 16, 2022

SoftBank creates ripple of job moves in telecoms sector

Job moves in the investment arms of telecoms companies over the past year, many of them involving rotation at SoftBank.

Sep 16, 2022

Web3 is a 'game changer' for telecoms says Telefónica Ventures

Telefónica Ventures head of investments Pablo Moro tells Global Venturing Web3 and the metaverse are now among its priorities, with play-to-earn, tokenisation, VR and AR among the potential strategic areas.

Sep 16, 2022

Editor's Picks

NGP Capital: learnings from a 15-year fund cycle

NGP Capital’s second fund produced six unicorns and top quartile returns while navigating significant change at Nokia, its corporate partner. Managing partner Paul Asel shares 6 insights others can take from the experience.

Feb 27, 2023

Nagraj Kashyap leaves Softbank Vision Fund

The corporate venturing veteran, who founded Microsoft’s CVC, M12, joins the list of recent departures from the embattled fund.

Feb 14, 2023

Armor says farewell to Comcast Ventures

After serving 16 years at Comcast, GCV Emerging Leader Kim Armor plans to focus her attention on climate change.

Dec 22, 2022

11 companies you probably forgot had CVC units

Remember Twitter's corporate venture fund? No? How about Adidas, Qantas or Disney? We delve into the past to go through some of the units time forgot.

Dec 9, 2022
© 2023 Mawsonia Ltd. All rights reserved.
test reg

Login

Not yet subscribed?

See your subscription offers here