We set up our Atlas Venture Development Corp (AVDC) initiative to push these types of deals forward back in 2010, and our Shire Alliance in 2012 is a variant of this theme.
Besides Bessemer, investors in Xtreme include the venture arms of Fluor Corp. and Dow Chemical, and previous investor SAIL Venture Partners.
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In late January ESPN star sports, a joint venture of ESPN and News Corp.
The cash-positive property is being offered as a commercial venture through Atlantic Western Realty Corp.
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PowerGenix, which makes nickel-zinc batteries, announced a joint venture with China City Construction Corp. earlier this year.
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ALTe will own one third of the joint venture, called MESA Industrial Technology Corp.
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Hunt Transport Services, with 21, 000 containers, and GE Harris Railway Electronics, a joint venture between General Electric and Harris Corp. that tracks railroad cars.
Investors included Atlas Venture, Solstice Capital, Hearst Corp.
In China, for example, where Alliance Boots formed a joint venture five years ago with Guangzhou Pharmaceuticals Corp.
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It also has one of Hong Kong's largest ISPs with over half a million customers, as well as a broadband joint venture with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and its Hong Kong affiliate Star TV.
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He has been selling incremental businesses over the last few months, including an employee-benefits joint venture the firm had with State Street Corp. (nyse: STT - news - people ), but doesn't seem ready to take the bold step of selling a major operation, like its Smith Barney brokerage division.
Dyle is operated by the Mobile Content Venture (MCV), a joint-venture of 12 major broadcast groups including Belo Corp.
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Anchor tenants already secured by Li's group include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Pacific Convergence Corp. (a joint venture between PCG and Intel) and Softbank.
Richard Harrington, former chief executive of Thomson Corp. and now chairman of venture capital firm Cue Ball , helped Bench produce a business plan and cash-flow projection and acted as a sounding board.
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Bluhm is in a joint venture with the Pritzker family's Hyatt Development Corp. to build a casino on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls.
The coming autos will challenge India's best-selling mass-market passenger car, the Maruti 800 manufactured by Japan's Suzuki Motor Corp. in a 50-50 venture with the Indian government.
Selkoe teamed up with venture capitalists in 1986 to found Athena Neurosciences, now part of Elan Corp. of Dublin, Ireland.
Venture capitalist David Sze at Greylock Partners, who invested in Facebook and LinkedIn Corp.
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On average, venture investors sit on 4.4 boards, although in some cases that number may be rising, according to a survey conducted late last year by the National Venture Capital Association and VentureSource, a unit of Wall Street Journal owner News Corp.
The sale of Directv to John Malone gives the family effective control at 38% of News Corp. and clears the way for James, now running the European satellite venture, BSkyB, to step in one day.
News of the internet channel comes a month after Rupert Murdoch's News Corp and NBC Universal said they were joining forces to launch a new online venture aimed at challenging the popularity of video sharing site YouTube.
Saban and News Corp. each got 49.5%, but Saban chaired and ran the venture.
It also ended its liquid-crystal display venture with rival Samsung, while inking a new capital alliance with Japanese electronics and camera maker Olympus Corp. to strengthen its medical equipment business.
Anton Periquet, head of equities research in Manila for Deutsche Regis Partners, a joint venture between Deutsche Bank and a Philippine brokerage, likes Ayala Land, 58% owned by Ayala Corp. and the country's largest landlord, with commercial and residential properties.
News Corp. and General Electric 's NBC Universal finally have a name for their joint-venture online video network: Hulu.
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