Comcast Emerges as Top Corporate Backer of Startups

Philadelphia Inquirer: Six years after deciding that it wanted to be a bigger part of clubby Silicon Valley, Comcast has become one of the nation’s biggest corporate investors in young tech firms. The research firm CB Insights ranked the company’s ventures unit as the nation’s No. 4 corporate start-up investor since 2011, with stakes in 105 early-stage companies.