Healthcare needs value-add more than capital, says Echo Health Ventures CEO Rob Coppedge
Author: Fernando Moncada Rivera
Fernando Moncada Rivera is a reporter at Global Corporate Venturing and also host of the Global Venturing Review podcast.
Visa Ventures: This is how AI will transform the future of payments
Visa Ventures head David Rolf lays out how AI can help overcome stubborn problems in the world of payments.
How Jaguar Land Rover’s InMotion learned to look beyond the car
Mike Smeed, partner at InMotion Ventures has changed his investment style in the two years he has been running InMotion Ventures, Jaguar Land Rover’s investment arm. One of the key things he learned was to look further outside the carmaker’s immediate needs. This is what he told GCV about what he had learned.
What if your t-shirt could help heal your sports injury?
UK startup Kymira supplies elite sports teams with garments with infrared technology that can speed muscle recovery and healing. Next, it wants to bring these to medical settings.
Hakluyt Capital exceeds $50m for first fund
The new fund has already made nine investments in growth-stage companies.
CVC Unplugged: Self-driving money is the next step in fintech
Hugo Bongers, partner at Motive Ventures, joins the show to talk all things fintech, and how financial democratisation is right around the corner.
Kim takes over Samsung Ventures America
After leading Ericsson Ventures for a decade, Albert Kim joins Samsung as executive vice president and head of Americas CVC.
Measure everything and keep egos in check — the secret to startup collaboration
Make money with corporate partners instead of raising money from VC’s is Fred Schonenberg of VentureFuel’s advice to startups.
Smart cities — are corporates missing an investment opportunity?
Cities are already smart, just not connected. It’s here that there is a big opportunity for CVC investors to get involved.
CVC Unplugged: The corporate is the body, the CVC is a transplant.
When Jeppe Hoier first joined Maersk Ventures, he wasn’t convinced that corporate venturing was a good idea. But over five years at the unit he saw the benefits a CVC investor could offer.
CVC Unplugged: How Cencosud Ventures learned to go against the grain
A partnership with Cornershop during the pandemic opened Chilean retail giant Cencosud’s eys to startups. Its new CVC arm now isn’t afraid to be contrarian.
Woven Capital is helping Toyota move from automobiles to mobility
Woven Capital managing partner George Kellerman joins the CVC Unplugged podcast to talk about how his $800m growth fund is now Toyota-wide.
Communicate, be resilient, and know when to leave: how CVC units can survive change
Creating a resilient strategy, constantly communicating their value and knowing when to spin out will help corporate investment units increase their longevity.
Scaling alternate meats is an uphill battle – CVC Unplugged
Cereal Docks’ CVC chief tells CVC Unplugged that getting plant-based proteins competitive again will be difficult but not impossible.