Startups

China-based taxi ordering app Didi Dache's $700m cash injection last week indicates that funding for the sector is not limited to Uber.

New Zealand's startup scene is characterised by active angel investors but companies tend to look outside the country when they reach expansion stage, Banga explained.

Canada-based corporates and governments need to match their US counterparts and be less 'Canadian' in order to grow the country's venture capital sector.

Exit numbers in October were high thanks to the KRW 10 trillion ($9.4bn) merger of online messaging company Kakao, and internet portal Daum Communications, both based in South Korea.

Spotlight on the tech transfer successes of Austria

Spotlight on the small yet mighty technology powerhouse of Estonia.

Tom Whitehouse, chairman of London Environmental Investment Forum, explores trends in clean-tech.

In our series of articles Corporate Venturing on the Test Bench, Boris Battistini and Martin Haemmig review and analyse the latest trends

The Germany-based fund was launched last month with a brief to invest in the most promising fin-tech companies atearly stage before contributing follow-on funding as its portfolio companies grow.

An interview with Lance Liu, investment manager of Ping An Ventures, one of the three investment platforms for Ping An Ventures.