Tag: vc
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Como Embraer e BNDES planejam seus investimentos em corporate venture
Empresa de aviação abriu unidade de investimento no Vale do Silício, enquanto o banco de fomento tem priorizado negócios inovadores SIMULAÇÃO DE VOOS PARA TREINAMENTO DE PILOTOS É UMA DAS ÁREAS EM QUE A EMBRAER INVESTE VIA CORPORATE VENTURE Ainda em 2013, a Embraer foi uma das primeiras empresas brasileiras a constituir um fundo de…
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The $100bn betThe meaning of the Vision Fund
Succeed or fail, Masayoshi Son is changing the world of technology investing TWO years ago, if you had asked experts to identify the most influential person in technology, you would have heard some familiar names: Jeff Bezos of Amazon, Alibaba’s Jack Ma or Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. Today there is a new contender: Masayoshi Son. The…
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Improving risk capital funding in Canada
Canadian entrepreneurs regularly cite a lack of financing options as a reason for Canada’s mediocre innovation performance. Certainly part of the problem has to do with the organization of risk capital markets. Canada’s public venture exchange (TSX-V) is biased toward junior resource listings. Canadian venture capital firms often lack the scale and expertise to fund…
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Fintechs: the market it’s changing…
Total global funding to fintechs doubles over Q1’17 to US$8.4 billion; Fintech investment in Singapore increases despite continued decline in deal volume. Total global fintech investment more than doubled quarter over quarter in Q2’17 to hit US $8.4 billion, up from US$3.6 billion in Q1’17, according to the KPMG Pulse of Fintech report.* According to…
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America has become so anti-innovation – it’s economic suicide
If you’ve used the internet at any point in the past few weeks, you’ve probably heard of Juicero. Juicero is a San Francisco-based company that sells a $400 juicer. Here’s how it works: you plug in a pre-sold packet of diced fruits and vegetables, and the machine transforms it into juice. But it turns out…