Global University Venturing

Three corporate venturing windfalls have resulted in three different strategies to maximise shareholder value over the long-term.

With innovation in technology fast outpacing traditional business processes, corporations are increasingly turning to investments as a way of adapting to change and staying ahead of the competition.

New York has one of the most vital tech ecosystems in the world, with Silicon Alley in Manhattan said to be the east coast’s answer to Silicon Valley.

Sister publication Global University Venturing’s analysis of the second quarter of 2019 shows increased investment activity as the year progresses and record-breaking amounts generated through exits.

The developing digital health sector has had to wait almost three years for the public markets to open up to it, but when they did, it was corporate venturing portfolio companies that were first through the flotation exit doors.

Sector review: Telecoms

Cambridge Innovation Capital has returned a second time to back a $240m series C for CMR Surgical, helping bring the surgical robotics company's total funding to $386m.

“WeWork’s Bonkers IPO,” said Fortune’s daily newsletter. “The Weirdness of WeWork’s IPO Filing”, sister publication CEO Daily called it, adding: “If a recession is coming, the WeWork IPO filing… will be a fitting capstone for the peak.”

Immonogenomics blood test developer OncoCell, a Harvard Medical School spinout, has increased its total funding to $30m.

Every day, Global University Venturing rounds up the smaller investments from across the university innovation ecosystem in its deal net.

Laser project technology company Casiris Technology lured Cash Capital and Cas Star to the table for its series D-plus round.