Corporate venture arms

IDG Ventures

Corporate VCSan Francisco, India

Mr. Alexander Rosen serves as a Managing Director at IDG Ventures USA. He has been an investor and “consigliere” to early-stage technology entrepreneurs for over 20 years. Today, he focuses on investments in cloud infrastructure, SaaS applications, ad tech, and consumer marketplaces. In particular, he’s passionate about companies at the intersection of consumer and enterprise technologies. Alex currently serves as board director at Chubbies (e-commerce for the weekend), Krux (Data Management Platform software), MindMeld (AI-powered intelligent interfaces), Minted (design-driven e-commerce marketplace), Smartling (translation management SaaS), Tempered Networks (security for industrial IoT), and Uplift (payment management and marketing for online merchants). He also led IDG Ventures’ investments in multiple companies including Appboy, cClearly, Datanyze, Fastly, Indiegogo, Motivate, Nuzzel, Prism Skylabs, Projector, The League, and Trifacta. Previously, he was a General Partner at Sprout Group, where he was head of the Internet and Software group. Alex has been a board member, observer, or investor at Flowdock (acquired by Rally), MyNewPlace (acquired by RealPage), mySimon (acquired by CNET), Quintus (IPO, acquired by Avaya), Fogdog (IPO, acquired by GSI Commerce), Sapient Health Network (acquired by WebMD), SideStep (acquired by Kayak), Rhythms (IPO, acquired by AT&T), and Vidible (acquired by AOL). Alex started his venture capital career as an associate with General Atlantic Partners, served as an advisor to Vector Capital, and developed software for Telcordia and AT&T Bell Labs early in his professional life. He holds BS degrees in electrical engineering and economics from MIT and an MBA from Stanford University.

T-Mobile Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Mr. John Legere serves as President, Chief Executive Officer and Board Member at T-Mobile. He has served as a director of our Company since April 30, 2013 and is a member of the Executive Committee of our Board of Directors. Mr. Legere joined T-Mobile USA in September 2012 as President and Chief Executive Officer and became our President and Chief Executive Officer on April 30, 2013 upon the consummation of the Business Combination. Mr. Legere has over 34 years' experience in the U.S. and global telecommunications and technology industries. Prior to joining T-Mobile USA, Mr. Legere served as Chief Executive Officer of Global Crossing Limited, a telecommunications company, from October 2001 to October 2011. Before joining Global Crossing, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Asia Global Crossing; as president of Dell Computer Corporation's operations in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa; as president Asia-Pacific for Dell; as president of AT&T Asia Pacific; as head of AT&T's outsourcing program and as head of AT&T global strategy and business development. Mr. Legere serves on the CTIA Board of Directors. Mr. Legere received a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from the University of Massachusetts, a Master of Science degree as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a Master of Business Administration degree from Fairleigh Dickinson University and he completed Harvard Business School's Program for Management Development.

Noosphere Ventures

Corporate VCMenlo Park, United States

Mr. Watt serves as a President & CFO at Noosphere Ventures. He is also an Angel Investor. He joined William Blair & Company in 2010 as the head of Internet and digital media investment banking. Prior to joining the firm he was a Partner in America’s Growth Capital’s Menlo Park investment banking group. Before joining AGC, Mr. Watt was a Director in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Merrill Lynch, where he was a leading member of its Global Internet and Digital Media investment banking practice. He joins AGC with 10 years of investment banking experience, having advised on over $10 billion of equity and debt financings, as well as over $20 billion of mergers and acquisitions for clients including Blue Nile, eBay, eHealth Insurance, FTD, InterActiveCorp, HP, Move.com and Research in Motion. Previously, Mr. Watt was a member of Merrill Lynch’s European Financial Sponsors Banking Group, based in London, UK, where he focused on strategic advisory and debt financing assignments for leading European and US private equity funds. A native of Scotland, Mr. Watt began his career at Ernst & Young. Immediately prior to joining AGC, he was a Managing Director at TriplePoint Capital, a global specialty finance company, where he focused on later stage venture investing. Mr. Watt holds a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Aberdeen (Scotland) and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (CA).

GV

Corporate VCMountain View, United States

Ms. Shernaz Daver serves as Advisor at GV. She is a leading marketing, business, and communications executive. She has over 20 years of experience building brands and consumer perception; advising executive management; scaling operational teams; and developing global businesses to take companies to the next level in marketing and mind share. Over her tenure, she has worked with numerous companies on a range of areas from brand building to crisis communication. These companies include Netflix, Walmart, Udacity, Motorola, Polyvore, Khan Academy, Zynga, Groupon, Kosmix, 3DO, PlayerScale (Yahoo), MetaPlace (Disney), Red Hot Labs (Google), Truveo (AOL), Savvis (CenturyLink), Orbital Data (Citrix), Indiegogo, and Baidu. She serves as an advisor to several companies including Spritz and Zettata. Previously, Shernaz served as the chief marketing officer and head of investor relations at Inktomi. Under her leadership, Inktomi became one of the hottest Internet names reaching a $37 billion valuation, and received numerous media and Wall Street accolades. Shernaz started her career at Sun Microsystems where she built a brand name for Solaris, the Sun operating system, and spearheaded the company’s European software initiatives from Paris. Shernaz holds an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, Phi Beta Kappa, and a master’s degree from Harvard University.

Agilent Technologies

Corporate VCUnited States

Herman Verrelst serves as General Manager - Clinical Applications Division at Agilent Technologies. He served as the Chief Executive Officer at Cartagenia. He also serves as Board Member at icoMetrix. Herman Verrelst is an experienced entrepreneur and business manager, with a specific background in the set up and management of high-tech companies and university spin-offs. In the past, he has been CEO, director and business unit manager in a number of software/bioinformatics based ventures, in the areas of gene expression based cancer biomarkers, medical imaging and pre-operative planning software and financial crime and compliance solutions. He received a master’s degree in engineering from the K.U.Leuven in 1996 and spent 4 years as a researcher and project coordinator at the same university focusing on artificial intelligence and various applications of advanced data analytics. He served as Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Data4S. He served as the CEO of Medicim. He graduated from Stanford University Graduate School of Business.

Workday Ventures

Corporate VCPleasanton, United States

Mike Frandsen is vice president at Workday and oversees product management, quality assurance and product delivery. Prior to joining Workday, he was CEO at Potenco, a green energy startup. Before Potenco, Mike was CEO at TradePoint Solutions, a provider of SaaS-based retail promotion management applications. He led TradePoint from delivery of a successful product prototype to the sale of the company to DemandTec in 2006. Preceding TradePoint, he was at PeopleSoft for seven years in various leadership roles, including vice president and general manager of supply chain management. He began his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) specializing in software strategy, product planning, development and customer support. He holds a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Colorado. He is also certified in planning and inventory management and resource management by the American Production and Inventory Control Society.

Qualcomm

Corporate VCLondon, United States

Qualcomm is a semiconductor and telecommunications equipment company that designs and markets wireless telecommunications products. The company specializes in integrated circuits, networking, wireless power and display technology. It also supplies system software based on code division multiple access, orthogonal frequency division multiple access and other technologies for use in voice and data communications and networking. Qualcomm also offers products for implementation of small cells, wireless operators and data centers. It was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in San Diego, California. The company has a strategy of accelerating its mobile technology services segment into robust new opportunities so that it can be well positioned to lead by delivering integrated semiconductor services.

Standards Australia Future Fund

Corporate VCAustralia

**The Future Fund invests on behalf of Standards Australia in businesses innovating to improve safety, efficiency and quality across the economy.** Our strategic focus is to enable standards to play a central role in delivering best practice in innovation and the businesses driving it. We look for brilliant ideas, teams and technologies, which operate in sectors where the adoption and use of standards is critical to success; and in businesses with ground-breaking technologies that can positively transform standards-based knowledge distribution and practical implementation. We participate globally, in early-stage funding rounds, with strategic and patient capital

Salesforce Ventures

Corporate VCLondon, United States

Salesforce Ventures is the global investment arm of Salesforce and is focused on partnering with the most results-oriented enterprise technology companies at every stage in their journey. Since 2009, Salesforce Ventures has invested over $3 billion in over 400 leading companies including Auth0, Databricks, DocuSign, Guild Education, Hopin, http://monday.com/, nCino, Snowflake, Snyk, Stripe, Tanium, Twilio, and Zoom. Salesforce Ventures provides portfolio companies with unparalleled access to Salesforce, one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in the world, including strategic advisory, customer introductions, and the strongest cloud ecosystem.

GXP Investments

Corporate VCUnited States

GXP Investments is the non-regulated investment affiliate and wholly owned subsidiary of Great Plains Energy Incorporated. The firm focuses on opportunities in the customer energy solutions and energy infrastructure industries, and is open to attractive investments outside of these sectors within the energy value chain. Other areas of focus include energy marketing, environmental remediation, infrastructure security and renewables services. It primarily targets growth equity investments in revenue generating businesses that are primed for expansion and that can benefit from a well-capitalized, industry experienced, strategic partner.

WARF Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Since its founding in 1925, WARF has served the University of Wisconsin-Madison scientific community by patenting the discoveries of UW-Madison researchers and licensing these technologies to leading companies in Wisconsin, the United States and worldwide. In this way, WARF also facilitates the use of UW-Madison research for the maximum benefit of society. WARF distributes the income from commercial licenses to the UW-Madison, the inventors and their departments. Each year, WARF contributes over $45 million to fund additional UW-Madison research. The university refers to WARF's annual gifts as its "margin of excellence" funding.

IBM Ventures

Corporate VCNew York City (NYC), United States

Mr. Karan Bajwa serves as a Managing Director, IBM India at International Business Machines. He had joined IBM last year as executive for strategy and transformation in the Asia Pacific region. Prior to this, he was managing director at Microsoft India. Bajwa will be responsible for all strategic and operational matters related to IBM India's sales, marketing, services and delivery operations in India, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka. Bajwa is also an angel investor and had backed hyperlocal services marketplace FindYahan, which was acquired by on-demand home services platform Zimmber last year.

Symantec Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Symantec is a provider of cyber security services. The company helps businesses, governments and people secure their data. It operates the business on a global civilian cyber intelligence threat network and track a number of threats across the internet from millions of mobile devices, endpoints and servers across the globe. Founded in 1982, Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries and principal office at Mountain View, California. The company's acquisitions are designed to enhance the features and functionality of existing products and extend the product leadership in core markets.

HubSpot Ventures

Corporate VCCambridge, United States

Mr. Dharmesh Shah is the Founder and serves as Chief Technology Officer at HubSpot. He also serves as Mentor at Rough Draft Ventures. Prior to HubSpot, he was founder and CEO of Pyramid Digital Solutions. Prior to Pyramid Digital Solutions, he held a number of technology management and development positions. He also runs OnStartups.com. He holds a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Alabama and an M.S. in the Management of Technology from MIT. He is author of a book entitled Inbound Marketing, Get Found Using Google, Social Media and Blogs.

Second Century Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Second Century Ventures (SCV) is a strategic investment fund that is verticalizing venture investing by launching its companies into the world's largest industries including real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance. SCV seeks investment opportunities in proven enterprises that will drive industry growth, enable new usage models and advance industry standards. SCV prefers SaaS companies generally focused on big data applications, digital media, fin tech and business services that can span multiple verticals.

EFI Group

Corporate VCUkraine

Ми інвестуємо в різні напрямки економіки та розвиваємо їх. Сфери інвестування EFI Group: healthcare та medtech, паперова, харчова промисловості, постачання сільськогосподарської продукції, енергетика, скляна промисловість тощо. Підприємства групи розташовані в п’яти областях України з центром управління в Києві. Наші фахівці вирішують нестандартні інвестиційні завдання, використовують комплексний аналіз ринків і новітні технології. Компанія ефективно співпрацює з партнерами та клієнтами в Україн

UPS Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

UPS Strategic Enterprise Fund is the private equity strategic investment arm of United Parcel Service. It is a corporate venture capital group which focuses on developing partnerships and acquiring knowledge returns from its investments in information technology companies and emerging market spaces. It invests early stage private companies operating in retail, warehousing, distribution, alternative fuel, wireless and bio metric sectors. It was founded in 1997 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.

viva bioinnovator

Corporate VCShanghai Shanghai, China

As the investment division of Viva Biotech Holdings (1873.HK), our commitment is to operate a platform for anyone aiming to develop an idea with transformative potential. We are dedicated to the identification and success of early-stage biotech start-ups for Viva’s investment and incubation tracks. With a team of experts from across the healthcare industry and over $150 M invested, our goal is to help spark a wave of innovation that provides hope and new treatments for patients in need.

Deutsche Telekom Hubraum Fund

Corporate VCBerlin, Germany

Tangible Tomorrow is a program focused on accelerating innovation by bringing together universities, startups, and spin-off companies working in telecommunications and human–machine interaction. The initiative supports projects at different stages of development — from early concepts and research to prototypes and pilot implementations. Its goal is to help promising ideas move beyond the lab and into practical use, delivering value both to industry and to society more broadly.

bigfoot ventures

Corporate VCCentral, Hong Kong

Bigfoot Ventures is a wholly-owned international investment subsidiary of the Bigfoot Group of Companies. With a young and dynamic team based in Asia, Bigfoot Ventures seeks to identify entrepreneurs with technology concepts that upend fundamental processes within large markets. We look for companies with defensible technologies who seek long-term collaboration to achieve shared goals and focus on opportunities at the crossroads of technology, media and the consumer sector.

SAP.io Fund

Corporate VCGlobal, United States

http://sap.io/ helps innovators start-up and scale with SAP. We deliver new partnerships and products for SAP by accelerating and scaling startup innovation as well as incubating employee ventures. http://sap.io/ brings together innovators from every region, industry, and line of business to transform how businesses run. Since 2017, http://sap.io/ has helped 300+ startups and ventures accelerate their growth while enabling thousands of SAP customers to access innovation.

Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments is an investment arm of The Goldman Sachs Group. The firm seeks to invest in the trading technology, market infrastructure, enterprise technology, information services, big data, advanced analytics software and services, security software and services, mobile technology, technology-enabled specialty finance, social financial technology and payments sectors. It makes investments via equity and convertible instruments.

ABB Technology Ventures

Corporate VCPalo Alto, Switzerland

ABB Technology Ventures is the strategic venture investment arm of ABB (NYSE: ABB). The firm has invested over $150 million into high technology companies across a range of sectors including robotics and other industrial automation, 3D printing, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, renewables and energy efficiency. It focuses on improving performance and lowering environmental impact for utility, industrial, transportation and infrastructure customers.

Sesame Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Sesame Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Sesame Workshop and is based in New York, New York. It seeks to partner with emerging companies operating in the education, health and social welfare sectors. The firm's portfolio companies will have access to Sesame Workshop's expertise in early childhood development, research, kid-centric design thinking and whole-child curriculum accumulated over nearly five decades of child-focused advancement.

ICG Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

ICG Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in La Vergne, Tennessee. The firm operates as a subsidiary of Ingram Content Group. ICG is a full-service concept-to-manufacture product development firm that looks for rapidly growing markets with differentiated products and services. They fund, develop and assists innovators, entrepreneurs and companies to conceive, design, produce, market and manage revolutionary new products.

Sinclair Digital Ventures

Corporate VCSeattle, United States

Sinclair Digital Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Sinclair Broadcast Group, formed to develop and enhance Sinclair's digital capabilities through strategic investments and acquisitions. The firm provides growth equity via seed and series A round investments in companies operating in the mobile, content, distribution, ad-technology, SaaS, data and analytics media, e-commerce, social media, advertising and marketing sectors.

Kiersten Stead

Corporate VCUnited States

Monsanto Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Monsanto. The firm seeks to invest in the new traits, genotyping technology, point-of-care diagnostics, RNA platforms, seed treatments, microbial, biologic treatments, chemical and biological delivery. The firm also invest in IT systems to support agriculture including analytics, data storage and compression, cloud technologies, image analysis, robotics and communications.

Transamerica Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Transamerica Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Transamerica and Aegon investing in innovative enterprise companies. The firm is based in New York, New York and prefers to invest in the U.S. and around the world. The firm invests in financial technology/financial services, big Data/analytics, digital marketing and sales, social media, enterprise IT, content and publishing, mobile and other B2B and B2B2C companies.

Nvidia GPU Ventures

Corporate VCSanta Clara, United States

NVIDIA GPU Ventures is a corporate venture arm of Nvidia. The firm provides marketing, operational, financial and other support to young ambitious companies founding their businesses around NVIDIA technologies. It invests in companies operating the video and image enhancement, scientific discovery, financial analysis, visualization, high performance computing, automotive, cloud computing, mobile applications and others.

Samsung Next

Corporate VCSan Francisco, United States

Samsung Global Innovation Center is a venture capital firm which invests in entrepreneurs and startups to create software and services. The team of entrepreneurs, engineers, investors, strategists, business developers and experts work together to empower the global community of startups. the firm is based in Silicon Valley, California with additional offices in New York, New York; Tel Aviv, Israel and Japan, Seoul.

Tyco Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Tyco International which invests in early-stage companies in frontier tech (augmented reality, drones, robotics), internet of things, big data, analytic and mobility technologies and solutions relevant to Tyco's core markets in security, fire protection, retail and first respondents. The firm was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Tyco Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Tyco Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Tyco International which invests in early-stage companies in frontier tech (augmented reality, drones, robotics), internet of things, big data, analytic and mobility technologies and solutions relevant to Tyco's core markets in security, fire protection, retail and first respondents. The firm was founded in 2000 and is headquartered in San Mateo, California.

Amgen Ventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Amgen based in San Francisco, California. It serves patients by transforming the promise of science and biotechnology into therapies that have the power to restore health or save lives. The firm seeks to invest in the biotechnology companies focused on human therapeutics, oncology, inflammation, hematology, metabolic disorders and cardiovascular diseases.

Sanofi-Genzyme BioVentures

Corporate VCUnited States

Sanofi-Genzyme Bioventures is a corporate venture capital arm of Sanofi and is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The firm specializes in early stage and growth investments. It seeks to invest in healthcare sectors; including rare diseases, oncology, vaccines, integrated health solutions and therapies. It prefers to invest globally with a focus on North America and Europe. The firm was founded in 2001.

Kaplan Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Kaplan Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Kaplan, Inc. The firm seeks to invest in the education, educational book publishing, professional training, information services, online training and education, mobile and information technology sectors. It focuses on supporting innovative companies that are pioneering new learning technologies and business models in education around the world.

DuPont Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

DuPont Ventures is a venture investment arm of E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company. The firm prefers to invest in companies operating in the agriculture, transportation, construction, clean-tech, electronic materials, nutrition and health, safety technology, performance materials and coatings, and color technologies sectors. It is based in Wilmington, Delaware and was founded in 2003.

Leo Foundation

Corporate VCDenmark

The LEO Foundation is one of Denmark’s largest enterprise foundations and an engaged majority shareholder of the pharmaceutical company LEO Pharma. The Foundation’s main objective is to ensure the company’s long-term development and success. Besides the ownership, the LEO Foundation provides philanthropic grants with the aim to support the best international research in skin diseases.

Sabic Ventures

Corporate VCSaudi Arabia

In today's rapidly evolving landscape, transforming our industry and delivering global impact requires more than innovation alone—it requires collaboration. No single organization can tackle these challenges in isolation. That is why SABIC Ventures partners with visionary entrepreneurs who share our commitment to sustainability, technology, differentiation and meaningful progress.

TEL Venture Capital by Tokyo Electron

Corporate VCFremont, Japan

TEL Venture Capital is the venture capital arm of Tokyo Electron. The firm prefers to invest in the semiconductor, manuufacturing process equipment, renewable energy, energy storage, life science, healthcare, medical electronics, lighting (LED, OLED), photonics, advanced display and printable electronics sectors. It is located in Fremont, California and co-located in Tokyo, Japan.

Xilinx Technology Ventures is the corporate venture capital arm of Xilinx. The firm invests in early-stage companies with innovative new technologies. In addition to funding, its portfolio companies often benefit from access to Xilinx products, technology, engineering talent and business relationships that can help validate their solutions and accelerate success in the market.

Echo Health Ventures

Corporate VCDurham, United States

Echo Health Ventures is a strategic collaboration between Cambia Health Solutions and Mosaic Health Solutions. The firm aims to act as a platform for investing in transformative healthcare companies by supporting them with capital and strategic advice. Both Mosaic and Cambia Health Solutions' existing venture capital and private equity portfolios will be managed by Echo.

Mayo Clinic Ventures

Corporate VCUnited States

Mayo Medical Ventures is a Minnesota based corporate venture arm of Mayo Clinic. It is responsible for commercializing Mayo Clinic's advancement of health-related technologies. The firm makes seed, startup, early and later stage investments in companies operating in the medical technology, medical devices, bio-pharmaceuticals and diagnostic sectors of Unites States.

Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center

Corporate VCUnited States

Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center is headquartered in Menlo Park, California and seeks to invest in the digital health, core display, internet of things, computer human interface, data center, power, semiconductor, sensors and mobile sectors. The firm's catalyst fund focuses on supporting the entrepreneurs, academics and artists. It was established in 2013.

7-Eleven Ventures

Corporate VCLondon, United Kingdom

7 Ventures is an investments firm which operates as venture capital arm of 7-Eleven. The firm is focused on discovering, partnering and investing in startups that complement 7Eleven's core value proposition of providing customers with convenience. It prefers to invest in companies operating in financial services, on-demand delivery and CPG product sectors.

Axial Capital

Corporate VCUnited Kingdom

Axial Capital is a venture investor & corporate advisory boutique. As a technology-resource based investor Axial Ventures invests where founders can demonstrate low capex business models with recurring B2B revenue streams. And we look to enhance value by leveraging our LP base and our established presence across the UK, North America, Australia and Europe.

Arizona Technology Enterprises

Corporate VCScottsdale, United States

Arizona Technology Enterprises is a corporate venture arm, intellectual property management and technology transfer organization for Arizona State University (ASU). The firm was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona. It seeks to invest in companies operating in the information technology, software, agriculture and healthcare sectors.

Aetna Ventures is the corporate venture arm of Aetna. The firm makes investments in companies engaged in developing innovative health care products and technologies. They seek to invest in and partner with entrepreneurial companies which share Aetna's goals of advancing affordability and simplicity in health care and enhancing the quality of care.