Consumer

Qualcomm Ventures reportedly backs the Taiwan-based event ticketing company founded last year.

This data summarise March 2012's deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement and the first quarter statistics. To report a deal or add your data, email Toby Lewis at tlewis@globalcorporateventuring.com

The story behind a country's start-up miracle and venture progress.

Consumer companies eat up venture investments.

Rahu finds right chemistry for Unilever.

Now they have developed a new approach to their open innovation efforts called X3 and I really like how they focus on the need for facilitators.

Servicing the world's consumers.

CVC Capital Partners-backed Nine Entertainment, which launched its corporate venturing unit last year, has helped online shoe company StyleTread raise $12m ($12.5m).

One thing is sure, we will see more and more similar attempts to break into China, given expectations of its huge promise.

Alibaba has also created AliVenture, another corporate venturing unit with a team of 16 to 20 investment professionals, according to news provider Asian Venture Capital Journal (AVCJ).