The bottom line is, you can't force a business unit to collaborate with a startup. But you can do a lot to entice them.

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Cummins, the industrial engine and power generation company, wants to go bigger in India. Working with #startups could be key to expanding says Ankit Harjai, who heads up CVC operations in #India .

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Data centres already account for 1% of total global #energy use — and it is getting worse as use of AI and high performance computing ramp up. So how do we get data centres running more efficiently? These #startups have some novel solutions:

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Many #CVC investors say they should be the ones to take #board seats at the #startups they #invest in. Some startups, however, prefer to have people from corporate business units in the board positions.

Where do you stand on the debate?

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Demand for #defence #tech is rising as geopolitical tensions grow, and governments are increasingly keen to buy from #startups . But selling to governments is a tricky business. The bottom line is, you will probably need help.

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The #pharmaceuticals supply chain is complicated and in need of updating. Joe Volpe and the #investor team at MSD Global Health Innovation Fund have an ambitious vision for supply chain network capable of autonomous, real-time decision-making.

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Hospitals are still a long way from being able to get the benefit of generative #AI . It's not the doctors that are the problem.

#genAI #healthcare #hospitaltech

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Big #energy companies are still investing slowly in #startups — unless you are an emerging carbon capture and storage company. Then, everyone is interested.

Find out who the biggest investors were in Q1.

#cleantech #investment #CCUS

“Most of the corporate venture initiatives have understood the corporate venturing game backwards.”

That's fighting talk from Jose Pascual, head of Cencosud Ventures, who is not afraid to take the contrarian view.

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Thomson Reuters has earmarked $8bn to invest in #AI -related #startups . This is the latest in a cluster of deals the company has made so far this year.

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Corporate investors kept up their momentum in the first quarter of 2024, while traditional VC investors have pulled back.

18% of all funding rounds in Q1 included a corporate backer.

Big rounds, #crypto , investment in #Singapore - read the Q1 analysis.

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AC Ventures, the corporate venturing unit of Coca Cola bottler Arca Continental, is shutting its doors after six years. It is one of a number of #CVC units — including SAP, ZF and Verizon—  that are winding down or cutting back #startup investment.

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If the #investment is terrible, kill it. If it is great, steal it. If it is in the middle, be helpful but make sure you ring-fence the deal in the right way.

This is the first in a monthly series of #advice columns for the #CVC community.

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PayPal Ventures will play a role in the payment processing company's focus on innovation. MD James Loftus explains why it is shifting focus to early-stage startups and how it is approaching investing in AI.

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Our list of human #microbiome #startups to watch was one of our most popular articles (and one of them, CC Bio just got acquired). So we have updated the list with 12 more cutting edge startups in this field.

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Biotech (or what is increasingly being called tech bio) has emerged as one of the key focus areas for Nvidia's investment arm.

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Woven Capital now invests not just for the Woven by Toyota subsidiary but the whole of Toyota. George Kellerman tells GCV how that new, expanded role will work.

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CVC are often cut when there is a CEO change or the corporation runs into crisis. But it doesn't have to be that way — if the team lays the groundwork right.

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Corporate ventures investor are selling their portfolios on the secondary market as other exit options remain closed.

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