Telecoms

A record number of corporate venturing funds have been raised this year.

Welcome to the Global Corporate Venturing analysis of 2011, where we pick out the biggest themes as decided by the people who count - the corporate venturing heads and those in the related ecosystem.

The company was currently talking with other venture capital firms to pursue joint investment opportunities, allowing it to participate in bigger deals.

The Spain-based phone operator is now tapped into the most important dealflow in technology around the world, after moving into Israel and Silicon Valley.

Corporates invest through the storm in Europe's penninsular

Part II of the Bell Mason Group's analysis for how to manage a corporate venturing group

Large corporate players are beginning to show interest in early-stage clean energy companies, both through corporate investment arms and through full acquisitions. Their behaviour displays promising parallels to the early days of the biotechnology industry.

The venture capital and entrepreneur respondents to a NVCA/Dow Jones survey also tip Barack Obama to win next year's US election, with Mitt Romney expected to win the Republican nomination.

Corporate venturing units are in the spotlight with increased support from the world's most important venture capital trade bodies, write Toby Lewis and Tim Lafferty

Investment levels challenge enterpreneurs.