Advice from a CVC freelancer
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
What’s it like to come into corporate VCs from the outside as a contractor? My guest is Bruno Meir...
Secondaries are breaking into the mainstream
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The whole point of investing is to hopefully get your money back at some point. But what if, as we’...
Do we have enough energy to power the AI future?
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The ugly truth behind the AI revolution is that it needs to be powered from somewhere. Every query y...
Why invest in LatAm
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Latin America is one of the fastest growing regions in the world, with a growing number of unicorns,...
Getting rid of bias in the investment process
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Human decision-making – even when a lot of money is at stake, is not always rational. A lot of the...
Economic ruts are a good time to double down
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In recent months we’ve seen quite a few corporate VC units either shut down, or get spun off, as t...
Investing in the in-space economy
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Space has historically been the domain of governments – as that has changed and it’s becoming a ...
Dealing with an unprecedented demand for power
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Demand on the power grid is not getting any lower, in fact it’s growing faster than ever, and putt...
Protecting critical infrastructure is big business
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The world is becoming, if not a more dangerous place, then perhaps a testier one. Over the past deca...
Canada’s startups navigate the new normal
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Talia Abramowitz, managing partner of Deloitte Ventures, a unit which has made the...
How CVCs can help hard-tech startups
09 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It is commonly thought that if you’re dealing with deeptech, that means you’re dealing with long...
How innovation can keep democracies ahead
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation has long been one of the primary forces shaping power around the world. If your society i...
Everyone is waiting for IPOs, but will market uncertainty delay them?
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Since the end of last year/beginning of this year there’s been quite a bit of optimism that invest...
The coming Web3 acquisition wave
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If we rewind to 2021, as we were starting to come out of the covid pandemic, there is nowhere you co...
rEnergy Partners: Charting a new course as a spun-out cleantech investor
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Greg Zavorotniy, who was managing director at what was then called BayWa Energy Ve...
Cencosud Ventures: Venture clienting should involve skin in the game
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Pilot projects between corporates and startups are a dime a dozen, just about any large corporate ca...
BMW i Ventures: Carmakers must innovate to navigate rapid technology shift
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investing in automotive is not what it used to be – it has gone far beyond just what makes the car...
Leaps by Bayer: Agtech investors look for zebras, not unicorns.
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
If you happen to be a human being, chances are you need to eat in order to survive. Agriculture is a...
Argentina’s turbulent economy is a forge for fintech founders
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Investing in fintech is hard wherever you are, but what if where you are is known for its economic a...
Looking ahead at fintech’s comeback
27 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The past year has been a big one for fintech startups. The high interest rate environment we’ve be...
We are in another iPhone Cambrian explosion for the chips industry
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For every dollar that is invested in semiconductors, around $3 of economic activity is thought to be...
Torq hopes to replicate Brazil’s fintech success across LatAm
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Latin America has always been fertile ground for fintech innovation and growth. Combining a young, t...
Best Nights VC wants people to meet in real life again
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Nightlife has changed in recent years. It’s not just the macro-effects of the pandemic – with hi...
How to get first-of-a-kind cleantech projects off the ground
18 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a bit of a different episode again this week – Fernando sits down with GCV’s editor-...
M&A and liquidity making a slower comeback in healthcare, but CVCs are stepping up to the plate
11 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the beginning of the year, I spoke to Bill Taranto, president of the MSD Global Health Innovation...
While others are cautious in a slower Brazilian market, L4 wants to be greedy
04 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The past year has not been the most active for the Brazilian CVC market. High interest rates, lack o...
How Olympus Innovation Ventures is looking into the human body
28 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
To fix things in the human body, you have to see them. This is what Olympus does. The legendary Japa...
Opening a new CVC office in the US is not easy – here’s how Lotte Ventures is doing it
21 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With Lotte Group’s expansion into biotech, it wanted its CVC, Lotte Ventures, to set up a new offi...
The US healthcare system has a huge resource shortage. Here’s how small and medium-sized investors can help plug the gap.
14 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The group of smaller and medium-sized investors has been growing, and their value has never been cle...
Petcare will be a half-trillion-dollar market in the next decade, and its not just treats and toys
07 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you have a pet, you will no doubt have come across one of Mars Petcare’s brands – Pedigree, W...
Radical change is needed to fix CVC’s gender problem. Here are some ideas.
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I’m talking to my colleague Angela Logan, news and production editor at GCV. Angela recently...
Investing in the hard assets of cleantech – a conversation with TechEnergy Ventures’ Alejandro Solé
23 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Alejandro Solé, chief investment officer of TechEnergy Ventures, the CVC unit for...
Making investing for everyone – a conversation with FISV’s Alokik Advani
16 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Investment is no longer the exclusive domain of investors. Increasingly sophisticated tools are comi...
Sabanci wants to invest $200m into renewables technology
09 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Murat Arcan, managing director of Sabanci Climate Ventures, the CVC unit of Sabanc...
Venture clienting as an entry point for more risk-averse corporates
02 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As companies are increasingly looking for faster innovation cycles and increased collaboration with ...
Can mining be at the forefront of the energy transition? A conversation with Vale Ventures’ Bruno Arcadier
26 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paradoxical though it may seem that an industry as extractive in nature as mining would be so import...
LatAm is hungrier for venture service providers – a conversation with Innova 360’s Laura Chicurel
19 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Historically, Latin American corporates, have been risk averse, wanting control, often family-owned,...
Should accelerators chase revenue instead of investment?
05 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The “typical” accelerator model as we know it – a cohort of young startups that go through som...
Innovating in an intractable healthcare system
29 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The US healthcare market is a big, complicated one. It’s fragmented, it’s large, with long sales...
A year of learning at InMotion Ventures – Mike Smeed returns
15 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Last September, I had the pleasure on this show of speaking to Mike Smeed, managing director of InMo...
The future of payments – a chat with Visa’s David Rolf
01 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Payments, payments, payments. In a world with a diminishing reliance on cash, payment technology is ...
The Next Wave Webinar: Investing in the changing world of sports
17 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The world of sports has been seeing some really dramatic shifts in recent years, including huge chan...
The transition from academic to entrepreneur
10 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Universities, by their very nature, have always been strong centres of innovation. Scientific discov...
Slower and steadier wins the race – Rob Bier’s case against blitzscaling
27 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Just because you can grow very quickly, doesn’t necessarily mean you should. That’s the argument...
Let’s give everyone more control over their finances – A conversation with Hugo Bongers
20 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Financial services permeate every other industry, and is a crucial part of everyone’s lives – wh...
How to get startups and corporates to fit together – a conversation with VentureFuel’s Fred Schonenberg
13 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fred Schonenberg is the founder of VentureFuel, a New York-based advisory firm focused on bringing t...
Universities take a more investor-friendly approach to IP
06 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the biggest hurdles to getting technology from universities out into the market has been that...
A CVC is like an organ transplant, the body would be wrong to fight it – A conversation with Jeppe Hoier
29 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jeppe Hoier is a long-time venture investor with experience in financial VCs, corporate VCs and on h...
How to effectively manage change and transformation (re-broadcast)
22 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We’re going back into the vault this week! They say that the only constant in life, and business, ...
The Next Wave Webinar: What does the hospital of the future look like?
15 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For a while now, there has been a clear trend, for example, of hospital functions like patient monit...
Why Cencosud Ventures loves contrarian thinking
08 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The way we buy things has been changing. Supercharged by the pandemic, the digital and physical side...
Investing in a strong supply chain
01 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today I speak with two people who know a lot about getting stuff from A to B– Rose Chen, head of i...
A booming market for secondaries
25 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With valuations down from where they were a couple of years ago, the exit horizons that investors ha...
From automobiles to mobility – how Woven Capital is helping Toyota evolve
18 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There are very few corporates out there that have two CVC funds, Toyota is one of them. Not only doe...
We should temper our expectations for alternate meat, says Grey Silo Ventures
11 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
For years now, people – myself included – have been waiting for the advent, in earnest, of plant...
Corporates underpin over half of all Gen AI investment
04 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the past year or so has been artificial intelligence and, in particular, generative art...
A portrait of Sopra Steria’s CVC rebuild
26 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sopra Steria Ventures, the CVC unit of French IT giant Sopra Steria, has been around for half a deca...
The Next Wave Webinar: Venture building – how to avoid the common failures
19 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s show is a bit different – instead of a normal conversation, we’re bringing you GCV’s...
Blair Tritt: Schreiber Foods
12 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Despite their products being so ubiquitous anywhere you live in the world, and an integral part of s...
Bernardita Araya: CMPC Ventures
05 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
One of the most exciting up and coming venture ecosystems in Latin America is that of Chile. In an a...
Kerry Carter
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kerry Carter is an entrepreneur, executive and investor in the area of sports technology, who also h...
Bill Taranto: MSD Global Health Innovation Fund
22 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Most people think that the Covid-19 pandemic has a supercharging effect on digital health – while ...
Jung Lee & T.A. McCann: Pioneer Square Labs
15 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The story of the past year or so, of course, has been an explosion in demand for all things artifici...
Alex Mahr: Stryber
11 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
This is a podcast that focuses primarily on the world of corporate venture capital, but as we look a...
Ginger Rothrock & Meghan Hunt: HG Ventures
04 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If you’re a company in the industrial sector, you’re going to have a lot of waste. Industrial pr...
Stéphane Longuet: Convivialité Ventures
27 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Many CVCs, because of their parents’ core business, tend to have, for lack of a better term, high-...
Hakan Goker & Owen Lozman: M Ventures
20 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Innovation is moving fast across most sectors, but in healthcare we are really seeing how tantalisin...
Juan Niet: Zacua Ventures
13 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The construction sector continues to face a number of massive challenges – skill and labour shorta...
Crispin Leick: EnBW New Ventures
06 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
For Crispin Leick, managing director of EnBW New Ventures, a passion for energy technology came earl...
The Next Wave: Functional foods – Investors are hungry for more
23 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Today’s show is a bit different – instead of a normal conversation, we’re bringing you GCV’s...
Richard Zeiger: MSW Capital
16 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What precisely is the role of a third-party CVC fund managers in the venture ecosystems of emerging ...
Owen Thompson: Cambridge Future Tech
09 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We have plenty of knowledge hidden all over the place, with potential for transformational change on...
Are IPOs back?
02 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
IPOs are back! With the recent listings of companies like chip manufacturer ARM and delivery app Ins...
Mike Smeed: InMotion Ventures
25 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Cars have been on their way to essentially becoming rolling computers for quite some time now. They ...
Cassio Spina: Alya Ventures
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Cassio Spina, founder and lead partner of a new advisory and venture management fi...
Michelle Gonzalez: M12
11 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Michelle Gonzalez, the global head of Microsoft’s corporate venturing unit, M12....
Arthur Alves: Gerdau Next Ventures
04 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Arthur Alves, corporate venture capital manager of Gerdau Next Ventures, the CVC a...
Youssef Mawad: JCI Ventures
28 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Increasingly, buildings are more than just bricks and mortar. Today they’re smarter, they’re mor...
Jonny Crowe: Liminal Ventures
21 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Jonny Crowe, a lawyer by training whose long career has been tied together by one ...
Arvind Purushotham: Citi Ventures
14 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Money, as they say, makes the world go round, and investments in financial services grew forty-fold ...
Debbie Brackeen: CSAA Insurance
07 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every successful business needs a strategy, and every business will need to innovate to survive. Str...
Miles Kirby: Deeptech Labs
31 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
My guest today is Miles Kirby, CEO of Deeptech Labs, the Cambridge-based accelerator and investor fo...
Mario Augusto Maia: Cogent Venture Partners
08 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Setting up a corporate venture capital unit comes with a lot of hurdles. You have to deal with a wid...
Jeffrey Grabow: EY
01 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The scale and speed with which the venture market has changed over the past year has caused some whi...
Dina Routhier & Michael Mahan – Stanley Ventures
24 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
One of the interesting shifts that happened during the covid pandemic was in building things. Large...
Erin VanLanduit: Cargill Ventures
17 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Everyone needs to eat, and as one of the largest private companies in the world, Cargill has played ...
Raj Singh: JLL Spark Global Ventures
10 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Every business needs a space, but how will those spaces be valued in the future? Commercial real est...
Lukasz Garbowski: Btomorrow Ventures
03 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Btomorrow Ventures (BTV), the venturing unit of British American Tobacco, is a CVC unlike the rest, ...
Brian Walsh: Wind Ventures
20 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean to grant “unfair” access to a region? That’s what Wind Ventures, the venture...
Brian Schettler: HorizonX
13 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Spinning a fund out of the corporate parent’s umbrella can be a tricky process. If done right, tho...
Investing in defence tech
06 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
There has never been a more crucial time to invest in technologies related to defence and security. ...
Paul Asel: NGP Capital
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
The world is changing, along with the way we look at it and experience it – this includes a mergin...
Andrew Chang: United Airlines Ventures
21 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Air travel is a notoriously hard to decarbonise sector. Next to heavy industry, aviation is the post...
Andrew Ferguson: Databricks Ventures
30 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
If it hasn’t already been clear for at least the past decade, there is certainly no doubt of it to...
Last Year in Data
23 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
I’m joined by GCV’s Kaloyan Andonov, an analyst and reporter who also happens to be a resident d...
Dan Ateya: RTX Ventures
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Happy New Year! For our first episode of 2023, one thing is clear – defence is not a business like...
The Next Wave: Investing Beyond Earth – Spacetech
19 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
It is our last episode of GVR for the year! To close out 2022, we’re bringing you a recording of a...
Oil and Gas Investment
12 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
In all likelihood, you will be acutely aware of the energy crisis we are experiencing virtually all ...
Should CVCs want more independence?
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
What does it mean for a corporate venturing unit to be independent? Is that a structural dimension o...
The collapse of FTX – where next for crypto?
21 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
We’ve got a big, ongoing story that’s been causing serious ripples across one of the fastest gro...