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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

At Virgin Mobile USA, Mari led early initiatives in mobile commerce, social networking and advertising. Corporate VCs open the door to their parent companies and are well networked in their industries. Entrepreneurs today expect more than just capital from their investors. Mari Holds a B.A.

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Mobile Payments: The Trillion Dollar Industry That's Never - AgileVC

Agile VC

They are fully fungible for hard currency through Safaricom’s network of retail partners for either the sender or recipient of an M-Pesa mobile payment. And at the end of the day it appears Isis will just be working with the existing credit card networks Visa, MC, Amex, & Discover. . Good luck to Ben.

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