Startups

Reasons European venture capital struggles compares to US peers laid bare: the latter caters to the entrepreneur.

In respect of seed and venture capital (VC) funding, Heinz Oyrer posed the statement "The European market is more or less dead but the US is still open" to members of the European Entrepreneurship & Innovation @ Silicon Valley LinkedIn group.

The journey Plastic Logic has taken from a research laboratory in Cambridge, UK, to a new special economic zone just outside Moscow, Russia, via the US, Germany and a swathe of investors from all avenues and geographies says much about how technological innovation is developed and funded in a globalised world.

The below table provides the most influential corporate venturing units for companies in the consumer sector.

The below table summarises March 2011's deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement. For full coverage on each deal every day as well as all other news, visit the rest of www.globalcorporateventuring.com

Steps on the road to being an adept venturer

There were 72 new rounds of funding and 12 exits through trade sales or flotations last month, according to Global Corporate Venturing.

Colin Blaydon and Fred Wainwright, professors, Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University, draw from proceedings of the National Venture Capital Association Corporate Venture Summit in November 2010 and written up by the Center for Private Equity and Entrepreneurship at Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth University.

US-listed chemicals company Dow is an old hand with new tricks when it comes to corporate venturing by moving its strategy towards strategic rather than financial goals.

Stars align for Cognovo's creation out of UK-listed semiconductor designer ARM.

A powerful partner with wide range of interests, conglomerate General Electric has the most influential corporate venturing unit in the industrial sector.