CVC Unplugged

CVC Unplugged


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How to get startups and corporates to fit together – a conversation with VentureFuel’s Fred Schonenberg
May 12, 2024

Fred Schonenberg is the founder of VentureFuel, a New York-based advisory firm focused on bringing together startups and large organisations, mainly corporates including the likes of Coca-Cola, ABInBe

Universities take a more investor-friendly approach to IP
May 05, 2024

One of the biggest hurdles to getting technology from universities out into the market has been that of intellectual property who does this technology belong to and who can benefit from it? Traditio

A CVC is like an organ transplant, the body would be wrong to fight it – A conversation with Jeppe Hoier
April 28, 2024

Jeppe Hoier is a long-time venture investor with experience in financial VCs, corporate VCs and on his own as an angel investor, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A former partner at Maersk Growth, the CV

How to effectively manage change and transformation (re-broadcast)
April 21, 2024

Were going back into the vault this week! They say that the only constant in life, and business, is change so how do you manage it effectively? Thats why last year I spoke with Jonny Crowe, a lawy

The Next Wave Webinar: What does the hospital of the future look like?
April 14, 2024

For a while now, there has been a clear trend, for example, of hospital functions like patient monitoring, diagnostics, and other treatments being moved closer to the patients, even into their homes,

Why Cencosud Ventures loves contrarian thinking
April 07, 2024

The way we buy things has been changing. Supercharged by the pandemic, the digital and physical sides of the retail experience continue to merge, data analytics continues to play an increasingly large

Investing in a strong supply chain
March 31, 2024

Today I speak with two people who know a lot about getting stuff from A to B Rose Chen, head of innovation investments and partnerships at supply chain and distribution company Wesco, and Hector Shib

A booming market for secondaries
March 24, 2024

With valuations down from where they were a couple of years ago, the exit horizons that investors had in mind when they made their original investment ended up being further away than they thought. Th

From automobiles to mobility – how Woven Capital is helping Toyota evolve
March 17, 2024

There are very few corporates out there that have two CVC funds, Toyota is one of them. Not only does it have an early-stage fund in Toyota Ventures, but also a growth stage unit in Woven Capital wh

We should temper our expectations for alternate meat, says Grey Silo Ventures
March 10, 2024

For years now, people myself included have been waiting for the advent, in earnest, of plant-based meats. Everyone loves a barbeque, but not the meat industrys effect on the environment, our heal