InnerVentures

  • Kraft Heinz makes £112bn approach to Unilever

    See excerpt – interesting point: Full article on FT here: Kraft Heinz makes £112bn approach to Unilever

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    I’m tracking these updates with the #innerventuresupdate tag – you can find all of them by following the link. They all tie in with and add to the findings from my trend report which covers startup driven innovation in large corporates, corporate venturing efforts and the role of the intrapreneur. You can buy the report…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • When corporate/startup innovation programs fail

    A great article describing the closure of Coca-Cola’s Founders startup incubator over on TechCrunch. It details some of the challenges with this approach that I thought were worth sharing here. I especially love the quoted thought below: You need a translator to help them understand what’s going on. That’s why a lot of platforms inside…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The state of startup / corporate collaboration 2016

    Cracking report from Imaginatik and MassChallenge. Its available to download from either site if you can find the page (registration required) but I’ve added the the-state-of-startupcorporate-collaboration-2016 (pdf). Key findings below: 1. INTERACTIONS MOVING EARLY STAGE While most startup/corporate interactions used to begin at the negotiation table, corporations and startups increasingly recognize the benefits of earlier…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest innerventures trends

    Lots going on recently so this is a big update with an excellent selection of articles and activities. You can see other updates like this by checking out posts with the research tag and the trend report that is a result of the curation of many of these posts: Startup Innovation

    Stephen Danelutti

  • The slide in Mary Meeker’s 2016 internet trends report that shows incumbents’ interest in startup innovation

    Here it is below. Admittedly it is somewhat narrowly focused on acquisitions of tech companies as a means to extend their digital capabilities. Still, a strong indicator from a very powerful voice. The commentary below the slide came from the article where I first read about her latest report and I cannot be sure of…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    Couple of new things happening in the world of startup driven innovation since my last post, at least new things I’ve found – some articles/announcements are from a while ago. Here they are: HP’s new Tech Ventures arm looks to invest in emerging startups 8 principles for innovation in a corporate ecosystem Naspers Plants a…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • Round up of latest #innerventures trends

    As always there lots going on and the last few weeks have brought some interesting new announcements and great stories from the trenches.  From indifferent to Intrapreneur – Getting employees on board Autoglass parent company launches global startup accelerator Alibaba’s cloud service launches global program for startups 3 Big company practices that work for any…

    Stephen Danelutti

  • How old banks are learning from a new breed of tech start-ups

    I gave this (i.e. the Fintech scene) special coverage in a separate section of my trend report. Banks around the world are realising that in the rapidly developing world of smartphones and apps they are at risk of falling behind in the innovation race. Fresh-faced financial technology start-ups (fintechs) are coming up with new mobile-first…

    Stephen Danelutti