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GCV Symposium: Sustainability takes centre stage
Speakers highlighted the growing importance of ESG strategy within CVC investments and how CVCs can help their respective parent firms’ green goals, particularly after COP26.
GCV Symposium keynote interview: “As investors, we need to raise our game”
Corporations need to allocate more funding to startups and take a long-term view despite shaky markets, says VC partner Saul Klein.
GCV Symposium panel: Government-based VC funding for security and deep tech
Nato’s Phillip Lockwood and In-Q-Tel’s Nat Puffer speak to governments’ growing appetite for deep tech investments in the security sector.
GCV Symposium panel: Energy and Mobility
Investors from ABB, BP, ArcelorMittal, Baker Hughes and Engie on how their strategy of building renewables portfolios is evolving.
GCV Symposium fireside chat: Looking beyond the short term
BP Ventures’ Erin Hallock explored the difficulties in getting a syndicate together for transformative technologies where financial returns could be far away.
GCV Symposium keynote: CVCs as change agents
Corporate venture capitalists can do more to help sustainability initiatives, Btomorrow Ventures managing director Lisa Smith said in her keynote speech.
GCV Symposium 2021: Panel – Cutting through the hype in ESG ventures
Eco-shaper’s Tracey Carr, Brill Power’s Christoph Birkl and Henkel Tech Ventures’ Paolo Bavaj shared their insights into sustainable investing.
GCV Symposium 2021: Keynote – The role of fusion power in the future of energy
OSI portfolio company First Light Fusion’s co-founder and CEO, Nicholas Hawker, explained how his company’s nuclear fusion technology could contribute to net-zero targets.
GCV Symposium 2021: Hydrogen – the next big thing?
GCV’s James Mawson interviewed Energy Transitions Commission chair Lord Adair Turner on the hydrogen space.
GCV Symposium 2021: Panel – The energy matrix – fuels for a sustainable future
Brown Rudick’s Neil Foster moderated a discussion between National Grid Partners’ Ian Cooper, Baker Hughes’ Luca Maria Rossi and ZeroAvia’s Katya Akulinicheva on the fuels of the future.
GCV Symposium 2021: Keynote – Lord Gerry Grimstone
Lord Gerry Grimstone, UK minister for investment, gave a keynote on the development of a fertile environment for the growth of decarbonisation technologies.
GCV Symposium 2021: Keynote – How to make an impact in impact investing
Sir Ronald Cohen, chair of the Global Social Impact Investment Steering Group, gave a keynote on impact investing and what he described as the impact revolution.
GCV Symposium 2021: Fireside chat – Blackrock and its big voice in net-zero transition
Mach49’s Paul Holland spoke with BlackRock Alternatives Investors’ Jim Barry on the latter’s firm’s climatetech strategy.