With shortages in labour and resources in the US healthcare system, medium-sized funds have a unique role to play to bridge the gaps.
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TechEnergy Ventures is on the hunt for hard assets
With a focus on hardware, the unit sees huge opportunity to help its parent company develop cleantech assets.
Fidelity’s CVC targets better investment tools with AI-plus-human help
We’re entering a new age of highly personalised and democratised financial services, says Fidelity International Strategic Ventures’s Alokik Advani, but we still want our hands held.
Sabancı uses VC arm to push into the US renewables market
Sabancı is building a multi-gigawatt renewables portfolio, and Sabancı Climate Ventures is helping find US and European start-up technologies to plug in.
Energy transition is pushing mining companies to innovate faster, says Vale Ventures head
Bruno Arcadier says scaling up startups to handle the vast volumes of the mining industry is a key challenge.
Latin American innovation firms team up to catch market boom
Seven years ago the market was nascent, now even smaller corporates want to tap startup style innovation. Innova360 and Bluebox merged in part to make the most of that wave.
The normal venture cycle isn’t fit for the healthcare industry
Healthcare needs value-add more than capital, says Echo Health Ventures CEO Rob Coppedge
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.