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The Future of Corporate Venture Capital

500

How has corporate venture capital changed? In the decade since the Great Recession, we have seen digital upstarts – taking advantage of disruptive technologies from AI to IoT – reshape the economy and the corporate pecking order. The post The Future of Corporate Venture Capital appeared first on 500 Startups.

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Understanding How The Innovator’s Dilemma Affects You

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I cannot recommend it enough for people in the technology or media sectors. Many people bandy about the definitions of “disruptive technology&# or “the innovator’s dilemma&# without ever having read the book and almost universally misunderstand the concepts. I’ve characterized it in a chart below.

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

TechCrunch

For years, the prevailing narrative for innovation in supply chain has focused on the disruptors: Upstarts that enter the industry with new technologies and business models to displace incumbents. Enablers take on the unglamorous role of helping incumbents stay relevant. The quiet engines driving transformation.

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Why We’re Looking to Fund Stuff With More Meaning

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Venture Capital is a tricky industry. They point out perceived market risks, they might question the management team’s experience, they might worry about regulatory risk or incumbent competitive powers. Apeel Technologies. Far from it. And if that, too, can reduce the rate of heart disease in America hallelujah.

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Why Draper Esprit doubled down on its status as a publicly listed VC

TechCrunch

We cover a lot of venture capital news here at TechCrunch. Lately, we’ve had to touch on rolling funds, solo GPs and a faster-than-ever investing cadence that has rewritten the rules of venture investing. But there’s another venture capital trend worth discussing: venture capital firms going public.

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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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The Breakout Tech Company Of 2018

Haystack

venture capital deals, a spike in mega-financings where it’s common to see not only $100M private rounds, but companies that raise two or three types of financings like this in the same calendar year! [Here is the Google Doc where we tracked these.]