The Art of Corporate Venture

The pressure on startups to trade off potential security risks of their technology against the competitive need to raise capital is set to grow.

Btomorrow Venture’s investment director Lukasz Garbowski talks about its mission to help British American Tobacco reinvent itself in an industry going out of vogue.

The Michigan-based startup believes a dual-cell, dual chemistry battery pack can dramatically increase the range of electric cars.

The number of startup funding rounds backed by corporate investors dropped 43% year-on-year in February. Deal value was down by two-thirds.

As the Silicon Valley Bank collapse still shakes the industry, corporate investors are finding a voice and stepping up, but must become more transparent.

To be truly effective, an innovation team needs freedom to operate, a separate measurement framework and incentives.

Brazil's corporate venturing ecosystem is still relatively young, with the majority of progammes set up in the last three years.

How you set up effective performance metrics for teams whose outcomes are a combination of tangible and intangible effects, is often as much about influence and learning, as it is about revenue.

Investors are becoming increasingly comfortable in putting their money behind national defence.

Corporate investors increasingly come from an entrepreneurship background or have deep operational expertise in their sector.

Where does the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank leave corporate investors? Here's what CVCs said about short and long-term challenges.