The corporate venturing unit expects an imminent close on its fundraising with another strategic backer besides Nielsen.
While many in corporate venturing have had distinguished careers, few could make as grand a boast of their prior dealmaking success as US-based media tracking company Nielsen’s corporate venturing unit chairman Itzhak Fisher (pictured).
Fisher said in a January interview, talking about Pereg Ventures with Global Corporate Venturing: “I took a company public at a $1bn valuation. Since then I have been private equity investing my own money and friends’ money.”
Fisher secured this deal in the 1990s. He…
