Another example of the blurring lines in media is The Daily — the News Corporation venture to create a tablet-only news publication.
BBC mandarins (though not Thatcher) were uneasy about what they saw as an ill-advised corporation venture out of impartiality and into campaigning.
According to the venture capital research firm Newark, N.J.-based Venture Economics, corporations made $64.5 million worth of venture investments in 1993 four years laterr and corporate venture capital was up 236%, to $216.7 million.
On the strength of its biofuel business plan rather than its biochar side business, Cool Planet – which has offices in Greenwood Village, Colorado and Camarillo, California – has raised around $150m from corporations and venture capital investors including Exelon, BP, Google Ventures, General Electric, North Bridge Venture Partners, Shea Ventures and Concord Energy.
It's possible that corporations have venture arms listed in Crunchbase, but for one reason or another, the venture arm isn't listed as a sub-organization of its corporate parent.
Many media companies and other corporations had venture arms in the late 1990s, only to downsize or eliminate them when the going got tough.
You know, you have some large corporations with venture arms like AT&T t, but it's sub-10% of their market cap.
Activity levels have skyrocketed by most measures, and over the last five years, the number of corporations making venture investments has risen to more than 800, as tracked by Global Corporate Venturing.
Major corporations and venture capitalists (VC) are investing in food startups more than ever.
Big corporations and venture capitalists see the possibilities of using the Internet of Things (IoT) to capture even more high-value private consumer data.
Despite his short tenure at City Hall, Mr. Cavanagh was able to complete a major assignment from Mr. Beame: organizing the city's Off-Track Betting Corporation, a venture intended at the time to raise revenue and prop up city finances.
