...six years overseeing venture capital and M&A deals at Twitter as director of corporate development and strategy. He gained experience as an associate at Silicon Valley Bank’s VC fund, SVB...

...be retweeted on Twitter than facts. The lack of effective monitoring of misinformation on Twitter and Facebook has reduced social media users’ trust in the platforms. Puck is a US-based...

...he says. “We have a whole team who are just searching through Twitter or other social sites to find out what people are saying if we change pricing, or whether...

...in using AI to source deals if it can identify outliers, for example, although he questions whether models trained on this can be called AI. “If a company’s Twitter mentions...

...to be confused with the microblogging service formerly known as Twitter. X was launched in 2010 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, founders of Alphabet’s predecessor and now subsidiary, Google....

...targets drew closer, and the year the social media landscape transformed before our eyes as Twitter rebranded as X and Meta launched Threads. These were the GCV stories that attracted...

Photo courtesy of the Atlanta Hawks via Twitter The biggest carmakers or telecoms companies on earth almost all of have a venture capital arm, but look down the list of...

...the second most WhatsApp users in the world and is in the top four markets for Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. But now SoftBank, which had turbocharged the Latin American startup...

Photo courtesy of Twitter Enterprise software producer Atlassian has appointed Peter Lenke head of strategic investment arm Atlassian Ventures, he revealed yesterday. Lenke comes to the unit after more than...

...values, as has Elon Musk’s more than halving of Twitter’s valuation. Investors are increasingly sceptical of the tech sector — as this FT article demonstrates — and will have little...

...Twitter, going to happy hours, and making it clear what your CVC stands for and what it invests in,” says Sullivan. The venturing unit focuses on technologies that improve employee...

...Twitter. Côte d’Ivoire-based social impact vehicle Janngo Capital Startup Fund has reached a €34m ($36m) first close after raising cash from LPs including media groups Muller Medien and Hubert Burda...

...corporates you may have forgot used to run CVC funds. Twitter Let’s start with a company that’s been in the news recently. Twitter Ventures came out the gate with a...

...trading next week. “I’m sorry,” he said in a Twitter thread. “That’s the biggest thing. I fucked up, and should have done better.” What does it mean? FTX’s investors The...

...media platform Twitter, according to TechCrunch. The U.S. and Czech-based Alter, previously known as Facemoji, has built a platform that helps game and app developers to put avatar systems into...

...America, Amazon, Alphabet and Twitter, according to news provider Forbes. France-based Shift4Good closed its first fund at more than €100m after backing by carmaker Renault among others. And they are...

...are replaced by those who will cut costs. Innovation departments can be primed for cutting unless shareholders and business units call for their retention. Already, Stripe, Twitter and others are...

Image courtesy of Alter. M&A Internet technology group Alphabet’s Google subsidiary has paid $100m to acquire Alter, the US-based metaverse avatar developer backed by social media platform Twitter, TechCrunch has...

...put such a large corporate venture capital investment in the take-private of Twitter is in contrast with Twitter’s own CVC activity while as a public company. Twitter has been an...

...through Twitter or TikTok, says Radhakrishnan. “The concept of a musician, say, tokenising ownership in their songs and giving a fan a blockchain-based token that could allow them to have...