Introduction
IBM Venture Capital Group
Our goal is to build strategic relationships with venture capital firms and their portfolio companies to create:
- An ecosystem that fosters innovation
- Exciting new technologies and customer solutions
- New growth opportunities in new markets
Spotlight on cloud
Participate in the Amazon Web Services Start-Up Challenge (link resides outside of ibm.com).
To get you off to a quick start, attend a special workshop and get help from technical experts on the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) running IBM.
Learn how to use IBM product images in the Amazon EC2 to create and deploy applications in the Amazon cloud. We will show you how to add your own product functionality to the IBM images by rebundling them.
In the news
IBM Launches Software to Act as Smart Grid Glue for Startups
September 16, 2009
IBM's SAFE could be particularly helpful for young startups. The software can offer these companies a standard software platform to build upon, enabling them to focus on their valuable intellectual property.
Events
Capitalizing on Corporate Venture Capital and Strategic Investors
Oct 28, 2009
Palo Alto, CA
VC Taskforce's Corporate Venture Capital special interest group has formed a panel of some of the leading corporate VCs to address some of the issues around how start-ups and venture capital investors better manage their relationships with strategic investors/ partners and provide some advice to start-up companies and venture capital investors.
Work with Business Partners
Cloud computing
Discover why cloud computing is important, how to get started, and where to learn more about it.
