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The Importance Of Corporate Venturing During Covid-19

The Horizons Tracker

Last year researchers from IESE highlighted the value of corporate venturing. The paper highlights how corporate venturing is a rapidly expanding endeavor, and corporate investments in startups have grown from 980 in 2013 to 3,232 per year today. This represents a sevenfold rise in investments, up to $134 billion in total.

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How Watson Changed IBM

Harvard Business Review

In January 2014 IBM announced they were spending $1 billion to launch the Watson Group , including a $100 million venture fund to support start-ups and businesses that are building Watson-powered apps using the “ Watson Developers Cloud.” So how does it work? First, with multiple business models.