You've probably heard of a few newish venture-operator groups out there — Betaworks, Churn Labs and Science , Incare some examples.
In fact, California-based Airship Ventures, operators of the world's largest passenger airship, the Zeppelin Eureka, which ferried passengers around Northern California, shut down last year after just four years in operation.
Feed Media has raised $1.2 million in funding led by Allegro Venture Partners, with participation from Core Venture Partners, CrunchFund (which, like TechCrunch, was founded by Michael Arrington), Cornice Ventures, Operators Fund, Streamlined Ventures, and individual angel investors.
Asia Pacific Internet Group APACIGG) — the joint venture operated by Rocket Internet and Qatari operator Ooredoo — also participated.
U.S. express-mail operator United Parcel Service will take direct control of a large share of its joint venture operations in China next year, the company said Thursday.
It recently announced a joint venture with operator China Unicom focused on transport systems, and it has partnered with Baidu to develop self-driving cars.
WAC's web platform used standard technologies like HTML, JavaScript and CSS and built upon the work of JIL (the Joint Innovation Lab, another joint venture between operators).
On December 9th the LSE announced a new derivatives exchange in a joint venture with OM Gruppen, operator of Stockholm's bourse.
Created as a joint venture between the operator, Teck Alaska, and the local Inupiat, it has fed much cash—$146m in 2010 alone into the Inupiat's coffers.
Tesco Mobile, the joint venture between mobile operator O2 and British supermarket Tesco, caused quite a stir back in late in 2009 when it announced that it would be selling Apple's iPhone in its stores and online.
