News and events
Synchrony
Venture News
Synchrony Venture News provides insight and commentary on corporate venture capital and the entrepreneurial innovation ecosystem:
Synchrony Venture News, October 2008 (1237k pdf)
- Adam Caper on the Market Turmoil and Innovation Opportunities
- Rise of Venture Capital Has Changed The Innovation Landscape
- CVC Leaders Embrace Open Innovation at TechConnect
- Innovation Index Fund Outperforms Market by a Wide Margin
Synchrony Venture News, January 2008 (1191k pdf)
- Corporate Venture Capital - A New Era
- The Innovation CapitalSM Experts Grow Their Team
- Corporate Venture Capital Deal Involvement Reaching 22%, CVC Dollars = Smart Money
- SECTOR SPOTLIGHT: Turning Green into Gold, Venture capital investment in clean tech and nanotech continues to grow at record levels
Entrepreneurship
Innovation and Growth Symposium, Nov 6-7, 2006
This year, Synchrony Venture Management is helping to sponsor the Entrepreneurship Innovation and Growth Symposium. The EIG series
is geared to address the needs of individuals managing New Business Development/
Growth departments, Corporate and Divisional R&D
organizations, Internal Ventures/Corporate Venture Capital and Strategic Planning
groups. Click
here to register with the special Synchrony Venture Management Rate, or click
here to read the agenda for the symposium (PDF).
WBUR interview May 23, 2006
Adam Caper, founder and managing director, was interviewed on WBUR on Wednesday,
May 23, by Martha Bebinger.
The story focused on the area’s economic competitiveness and the advantages
of doing business in Boston. Click here to read the transcript.
Startup Cornering
Corporate-VC Niche (628k
pdf)
Private Equity Insider
April 14, 2006
New
firm to help midsize companies flex venture arms
Mass High Tech
April 7, 2006
Christopher Calnan interviews Synchrony founder Adam Caper regarding opportunities
in corporate venture capital for Global 2000 companies.
Can corporate venture capital
help companies innovate? How to use outside investments as a source of innovation. (106k
pdf)
Strategy & Innovation
March-April 2006, Volume 4, Number 2
Innosight, the consulting firm started by Harvard Business School professor
Clay Christensen, recently profiled Synchrony as a solution to many of the
inherent challenges of CVC