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Japan is the fund leader among Asian universities

Japan's sophisticated network of university investment funds make it an outlier among other Asian countries.


Oct 17, 2024

Smaller corporates embrace venture building

Smaller companies build their own ventures more than larger corporates and the chief executive is more involved with the CVC, according to GCV's Keystone benchmarking survey.

Oct 15, 2024

Crypto VC Gate Ventures and blockchain firm Movement Labs form $20m fund

The initiative, also backed by Thai family office VC Boon Ventures, will target blockchain projects specialised in Move, the programming language by Movement Labs.

Oct 14, 2024

Naor and Plaza join CapitalG to lead portfolio strategy

Alphabet’s growth fund appointed Adam Naor and Monica Plaza as VP of business development and operating partner, respectively.

Oct 14, 2024

VCs want active, not passive corporate investors

Here's how to make the relationship between a VC and its strategic corporate LPs one that benefits both sides.

Oct 11, 2024

Corporates give Korean software startups international springboard

Korea has a strong roster of startups providing software for industry and large conglomerates. They are now finding markets abroad, too.

Oct 9, 2024

Fewer — but bigger — corporate-backed startup exits in September

The longed-for recovery in startup exits hasn't yet arrived. But those startups that did get bought or publicly listed in September did so at higher prices.

Oct 7, 2024

Tsuchikawa bids farewell to Sony Ventures

GCV Powerlist mainstay Gen Tsuchikawa left Japanese conglomerate Sony after two decades, having led its CVC unit in the past eight years.

Oct 4, 2024

Japan sees boost in corporate investment in Q3, while Israel experiences slump

Japan saw an 80% rise in corporate backed funding rounds while India saw a 45% increase and Israel saw a 38% drop.

Oct 4, 2024

Al-Nasser promoted to senior principal of CVC at Saudi IT firm Elm

After three years working for the Saudi IT services and consultancy company, Khalid Al-Nasser has been made senior principal of CVC.

Sep 30, 2024

Gen AI is hitting limits but these new chipmakers can help

Corporate investors are backing chip startups with solutions for the generative AI's memory wall, interconnect and edge problems.

Sep 25, 2024

Want to rank entrepreneurial universities? Look at funds not founders

Universities are having an increasingly big impact on startup ecosystems through funds — here's how GUV plans to measure it and why we won't look at individual founders.

Sep 24, 2024
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