corporate venture capital

If your startup doesn’t have a well-defined business model — and a backup in case the first one fails — it’s unlikely to get funded.

Despite the challenging fundraising environment of 2022, we saw more big corporations launching their corporate venture arms in Brazil last year than during the boom years of 2020 and 2021.

Pegasus Tech Ventures, a Silicon Valley-headquartered venture capital firm that helps corporations invest in startups, said it has set up a $100 million fund with Japanese chemical and life science…

Up.Labs thinks its pitch to founding teams is attractive: It has a known problem, a customer waiting and capital to help get things going.

While other nontraditional investors have slowed their pace in 2022, CVCs have been in the largest percentage of deals yet.

The narrative falls short when you look at data from before 2021. In the U.S. and globally, VC activity is well on track to exceed a long-term trend that started…

Once you’re on the VC-fueled treadmill, you can’t easily step back off.

Ulta is just the latest corporate venture fund. The Home Depot, Chipotle, AmerisourceBergen and Booz Allen Hamilton also announced funds this year, bringing a total of $450 million to the…

Founders who are hunting for an extension round in this market should remember why there was only enough room for Rose on the door at the end of “Titanic.”

It may seem like you’re facing off against Goliath when trying to negotiate with CVCs, but the size and experience of their legal teams doesn’t give them an automatic advantage.

This is the most critical impact of downturns: Venture capital funds will have a more challenging time raising money to invest, which translates into less capital being available to founders.

If you can envision a solution that solves a customer’s problem, it helps to have technical skills if you want to bring it to market. But that’s not a requirement.

Corporates generally aren’t hard to find because of their bigger presence, but founders have to take care to perform due diligence around which corporate best suits their needs

Tokio Marine, a Tokyo-headquartered insurance corporation, said Tuesday it has launched its $42 million corporate venture capital (CVC) fund, dubbed Tokio Marine Future Fund, to invest in early-stage startups around…

Investment in climate tech is heating up almost as fast as climate change itself. In 2021, climate tech startups received $40+ billion across more than 600 deals. That’s more than…

You are more likely to close a sale if you have actionable insights into your prospective customer’s needs. But for enterprise software startups, this presents a special problem.

Sony Ventures Corporation (SVC) announced today that it has completed the first closing of its $215 million (25 billion JPY) fourth fund, Sony Innovation Fund 3 (SIF3), to back all…

Many climate unicorns are on the way, but current VC levels are dwarfed by the mind-boggling funding amounts that are needed to give humanity a fighting chance.

Losing Chinese corporate venture capitalists entirely, and overnight — which will not happen, mind — would be sharply contractionary but not lethal.

Whatever you do, don’t refer to LG’s incubator program LG Nova as a corporate venture capital (CVC) outfit.

As we get closer to the end of the year, we’re running more stories that look back at topics we examined in depth over the last several months, and several…

HubSpot made a total of 25 investments through its prior fund and expects to continue at the same pace with the new fund.

Brian Walsh demystifies the role of the corporate venture capital investment committee and shines a light on how entrepreneurs can navigate some of the hidden pitfalls.

All kinds of teams are raising venture funds these days, so don’t be surprised to see more investors from corporate venture firms decide to create their own outfits, too. They…

Intuit Ventures will identify growth opportunities and trends beneficial for Intuit’s key customers — small businesses and consumers.