Energy

Healthcare uses corporate venturing defensively as Google unveils Calico deal with Art Levinsohn.

Oilfield services company Schlumberger joins $7m series B funding for maker of handheld chemical analysis tools, with participation of existing investors including University of Tokyo Edge Capital.

Earlier this year The Korea Capital Market Institute estimated that the government measures there to support angel investors and start-up companies would initiate a subsequent 4.3 trillion won increase in venture investment over the next five years. And with angel investor data also rising, deal flow is naturally buoyant. But the impatient exit culture of this market could be setting up entrepreneurs and investors alike for failure.

South Africa media and internet services firm, Naspers, is not pulling out of the Indonesia and Philippines online service markets, despite the corporate investor having to bite the bullet and close two sites in those markets earlier this year. Two strong brands in the classified sector has proved that the right strategy works in any market.

Findings from a survey by compensation specialists at J Thelander Consulting in partnership with the Corporate Venture and Innovation Initiative CVI2 provide a rare glimpse into compensation trends in corporate venturing.

A look at the UK's university commercialisation ecosystem in the first of a regular regional analysis series by our sister title Global University Venturing.

Corven Networks' Andrew Gaule interviews Reed Elsevier Ventures' Tony Askew.

A look at the corporate venturing unit of media group Hearst Corporation, which has sealed successes including Netscape, Broadcast.com and Brightcove in its near two decade-long history.