Mach49’s Linda Yates and Paul Holland moderated a session dealing with “venture factories” within corporations, featuring Airbus’ Christian Lindener and Hitachi’s Laurent Guengant.
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GCV Symposium 2021: Panel – A future vision for CVCs
Sony Innovation Fund’s Antonio Avitabile, LG Technology Ventures’ Dong-Su Kim and UCB Ventures’ Erica Whittaker spoke about building a business strategy that adds value to a CVC’s portfolio.
GCV Symposium 2021: Recap and review – What data during a pandemic is telling us
GCV’s Kaloyan Andonov and Cetim‘s Martin Haemmig shared data insights into the VC industry since the onset of the pandemic.
GCV Symposium 2021: Fireside Chat – The new era of partnering and investing
Bayer’s Marianne De Backer spoke with GCV’s James Mawson on the latest in the biotech scene.
GCV Symposium 2021: Welcome and introductions – 10th annual GCV Symposium
GCV editor-in-chief James Mawson gave welcoming remarks together with chair Ignacio Gimenez, managing partner of BP Ventures.
B2Broker launches VC fund
The liquidity and crypto technology provider announced a corporate venturing vehicle to invest in companies complementary to its own products.
GCV Digital Forum 2021: Best practices for raising a second fund
TDK Ventures closed its sophomore fund on $150m in April 2021.
GCV Digital Forum 2021: Keeping up with the corporates
500 Startups and TDK Ventures share insights on how today’s multinationals are catalysing innovation.
GCV Digital Forum 2021: How Backstage Capital is catalysing change
Backstage as a vehicle investing in “underestimated rather than underrepresented founders”.
GCV Leadership Society – New Member Spotlight: Blackberry
Vito Giallorenzo shares insights on BlackBerry’s new approach to venture.
GCV Digital Forum 2021: How and why CVCs should earn carry
Mach49 advises its clients to put in place appropriate compensation to avoid poaching of staff.
GCV Digital Forum 2021: Qualcomm Ventures and The Continuation To Conquer CVC
Qualcomm Ventures leader reflects on 20 years’ success.
GCV Digital Forum 2021: M&A, exits and rising trends across the market
Alex McCracken, managing director at Silicon Valley Bank’s UK branch, provided an overview of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity, exit routes and emerging trends across the market at the GCV Digital Forum 2021. As McCracken underlined, activity has been buoyant in the last year, often driven by an increasing presence of corporate investors. A rising… Continue reading GCV Digital Forum 2021: M&A, exits and rising trends across the market
GCV Digital Forum 2021: Amazon’s innovation strategy
Paul Misener, senior vice-president for global innovation policy and communications at Amazon, speaking at the GCV Digital Forum 2021 described how being obsessed over customers instead of competitors is the key to Amazon’s innovation strategy. “Our invention machine relies very heavily on customer sessions, where we figure out what the customer can get out of… Continue reading GCV Digital Forum 2021: Amazon’s innovation strategy