The Art of Corporate Venture

Japan is second only to the US when it comes to spacetech startups raising funding from the corporate sector.

Wondering which corporate venturers have specialist investment funds for artificial intelligence? Here is the list of traditional funds and new units, offshoots and accelerators.

Under pressure to simplify supply chains and improve sustainability, Nupo Ventures is building startups, with six under its belt so far.

Japan's sophisticated network of university investment funds make it an outlier among other Asian countries.

Smaller companies build their own ventures more than larger corporates and the chief executive is more involved with the CVC, according to GCV's Keystone benchmarking survey.

Here's how to make the relationship between a VC and its strategic corporate LPs one that benefits both sides.

Japan saw an 80% rise in corporate backed funding rounds while India saw a 45% increase and Israel saw a 38% drop.

Universities are having an increasingly big impact on startup ecosystems through funds — here's how GUV plans to measure it and why we won't look at individual founders.

More than 300 new CVC units have been created since 2020. They are less US-centric and more focused on energy than older peers.

Corporate-led funding rounds account for larger and larger shares of total venture investment. The trend is here to stay as CVC offers startups more than just money.

The number of deals in UK spinouts at the earliest stage of equity investing has been falling over the past few years, highlighting a potential bottleneck in early-stage funding.