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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

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How has corporate venture capital changed? Conventional wisdom dictated that incumbents should focus their innovation efforts on R&D and growing their cash cows while investing in a few startups. The post The Future of Corporate Venture Capital appeared first on 500 Startups. Since 2010, we’ve.

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The next wave of supply-chain innovation will be driven by startups that help incumbents win

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Steve Sloane is a partner at Menlo Ventures where he invests in inflection-stage companies. Derek Xiao is an investor at Menlo Ventures focused on soon-to-be breakout companies at the inflection stage. For these industries, digital enablers, rather than disruptors, constitute the next wave of supply chain innovation. Derek Xiao.

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Venture capital funding may have slowed, but VC firms have no problems raising new funds

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As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. Haris Khurshid, general partner at Chalo Ventures , launched a $50 million second fund focused on investing in Pakistani startups and a smaller percentage in Latin American startups. Paul Sawers covered Cathay Innovation ’s third fund, with $1.05

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Lowercarbon Capital and Gradient Ventures Invest $9M in Quilt for Advanced Residential Heat Pump System

American Entrepreneurship

The company’s mission to reduce home-based fossil fuel dependency has attracted additional support from Incite Ventures, MCJ Collective, Garage Capital, Climate Capital, and Spacecadet. However, most heat pump systems today are more difficult to use than their more mature fossil incumbents.

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New capital positions luxury goods reseller Rebag for next round of innovation

TechCrunch

We profiled Rebag back in 2015, when its name included two “g’s,” (gotta love URL availability) and had raised $4 million in seed funding to go after incumbents like The RealReal. Gorra intends to use the new capital to continue technology development on those tools, to add to Rebag’s workforce of 150 people and expand its marketing.

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With capital aplenty, modern corporate investors marry financial and strategic goals

TechCrunch

The corporate venture capital (CVC) market is booming. With corporate venture fund creation rebounding to near record levels and the value of deals that CVCs participated in soaring, we wanted to look more deeply into why companies are building their own investing arms. But it’s not a pure venture capital story.

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Financial Inclusion for Latinos Gains $4.5M Seed Capital for Latino-founded Neobank

American Entrepreneurship

Costanoa Ventures led Seed Round with participation from South Park Commons and FJ Labs Innovation and entrepreneurship is about filling a gap or solving a pain point. Comun observed that no incumbent bank offers a full Spanish language banking experience. said Mark Selcow, Partner at Costanoa Ventures.

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