GCV spoke with Michaël Niddam, co-founder and managing director of Kamet Ventures about the intersection of health care and insurance tech.
Category: Comment
Sector specialist: Rob Coppedge
Rob Coppedge, CEO, Echo Health Ventures
Sector specialist: Richard Osborn
Richard Osborn, managing partner, Telus Ventures
Look east for our emerging future
June issue editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing
Europe’s need for a sustainable and equitable investment plan
Europe can respond to the Covid-19 crisis in two ways: restore the past or bounce forward.
CVC easy as 123
When asked for the Global Corporate Venturing agriculture technology supplement in March, why there is such a boom, Daria Batukhtina, business development manager at Kubota Group, a Japan-based agriculture machinery maker, said: “Business is not as usual.”
Strategies blur as opportunities arise
Interesting to see Søren Thinggaard Hansen has joined Denmark-based pharmaceutical firm Novo as a senior partner to set up a private equity initiative to complement its existing corporate venturing strategy.
Facebook experiments with venture
It is hard to argue social media network provider Facebook has missed out on much over the past 15 or so years.
Shifting gears in times of crisis
Comment from Andrea Course, venture principal, Shell
The power of a pandemic to focus the mind
Comment from Angela McKane, director of technology intelligence at BP
Harmeier’s move accelerates Basel’s drugs ring
Anja Harmeier’s April move from Switzerland-based pharmaceutical group Roche’s corporate venturing unit to become a partner at the BB Pureos Bioventures VC joint venture has kept her close to Basel’s drug heartland.
How Governments, Corporations and Universities can Work Together
One of the opening panels at the GCV Digital Forum last week covered the so-called triple helix of how corporations, governments and universities can work together. The groups prepared keynote presentations before a live discussion.
Lessons learned when innovation and capital meet
Thank you to the team and all who have worked their socks off for the first GCV Digital Forum and also the sponsors, speakers and attendees who have made it such a success. The platform will stay open for 30 days.
Day 1 of GCV Digital Forum
All the best parties have after-parties. And while not quite a 24-hour party people in one way, the GCV Digital Forum has 600 attendees from across the time zones creating a unique network and sharing of insights on 3-4 June.