The Art of Corporate Venture

The new world order aspect comes from how corporate connections are powered.

The challenge of managing a diverse set of strategic LPs is an area of increasing importance to many venture capital firms.

The corporate venturing groups were certainly impressed by the watchman in this case, as they voted Hijazi's company the "most investable" among the 15 finallists at the competition, held in partnership with American Security Challgenge.

Corporates plan for electric car future.

This year, in all bar one of the awards, Global Corporate Venturing selected a shortlist and the winner was selected by the magazine's advisory board at the end of March. Editor James Mawson chose the lifetime achievement award.

This article, the second of two, contains ideas for successful corporate venturing drawn from my experience in operations in corporate companies, start-ups providing products and services to corpo-rates and corporate venture capital investing with an oil major. This article deals with obstacles and failure signals.

Capital prospects for accelerated venture growth.

This is the second in a bimonthly series of articles about the personal alternative investments markets available to the professional corporate venturer. This section in Global Corporate Venturing magazine looks beyond our readers' day jobs at how they manage their time and wealth using the same skills of insight, trend analysis and managing risk they bring to their professional careers.

These pages summarise last month's deal activity with a corporate venturing involvement. To report a deal or add your data, email Toby Lewis at tlewis@globalcorporateventuring.com

A trend to watch for much of this year will be corporates coming in to lead rounds for exciting new technologies of a capital intensive nature. For contrarian corporates getting in, while others are pulling back, the opportunity is promising.