Global Venturing Review

Every successful business needs a strategy, and every business will need to innovate to survive. Strategy, of course, sets out long-term direction and intentionality, while innovation, by definition deals with new things, which naturally can be disruptive. So how do you moderate the two? Which of them informs the other more, and how? The post Debbie Brackeen: CSAA Insurance appeared first on CVC Unplugged.

My guest today is Miles Kirby, CEO of Deeptech Labs, the Cambridge-based accelerator and investor focused, as its name suggests, on deep tech – which is of course an umbrella term encompassing a broad set of new technologies such as artificial intelligence, quantum, advanced materials, other advanced compute, and just about any technology that has not quite been commodified yet and still has substantial engineering or scientific challenges to overcome. The post Miles Kirby: Deeptech Labs appeared first on CVC Unplugged.

Setting up a corporate venture capital unit comes with a lot of hurdles. You have to deal with a wide range of stakeholders, and you have to find a place to fit within the wider corporate structure, much of which is not necessarily well-versed in the value that a venturing unit can bring. You also … Continue reading "Mario Augusto Maia: Cogent Venture Partners" The post Mario Augusto Maia: Cogent Venture Partners appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

The scale and speed with which the venture market has changed over the past year has caused some whiplash for startups and investors alike. All of a sudden, we find ourselves in an environment with higher inflation, higher interest rates, and much more difficulty being able to raise money, be it equity or debt. While … Continue reading "Jeffrey Grabow: EY" The post Jeffrey Grabow: EY appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

One of the interesting shifts that happened during the covid pandemic was in building things. Larger construction projects slowed down while at home DIY projects took off as people had to spend inside. This is but one of the patterns that Stanley Ventures, the venturing unit of Stanley Black & Decker, had a front-row view … Continue reading "Dina Routhier & Michael Mahan – Stanley Ventures" The post Dina Routhier & Michael Mahan – Stanley Ventures appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

Everyone needs to eat, and as one of the largest private companies in the world, Cargill has played a large role in providing much of what, at least in the US, shows up in supermarkets. But what does the future of food look like? And what innovation is needed to bring agriculture up to speed … Continue reading "Erin VanLanduit: Cargill Ventures" The post Erin VanLanduit: Cargill Ventures appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

Every business needs a space, but how will those spaces be valued in the future? Commercial real estate is in the beginning stages of some important changes in the way it looks, operates, shares its space, and even where it is located, much of the changes coming in the aftermath of the pandemic. Raj Singh, … Continue reading "Raj Singh: JLL Spark Global Ventures" The post Raj Singh: JLL Spark Global Ventures appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

Btomorrow Ventures (BTV), the venturing unit of British American Tobacco, is a CVC unlike the rest, in the sense that While the typical aim of corporate venturing is to complement and innovate on top of its parent company’s business, BTV’s main purpose is to help its tobacco producing parent to move away from its core … Continue reading "Lukasz Garbowski: Btomorrow Ventures" The post Lukasz Garbowski: Btomorrow Ventures appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

What does it mean to grant “unfair” access to a region? That’s what Wind Ventures, the venture capital arm of Chilean energy company Copec, wants to do for its portfolio companies wanting exposure to the Latin American market. With a wide remit that primarily straddles energy and mobility, Wind has been bullish on the energy … Continue reading "Brian Walsh: Wind Ventures" The post Brian Walsh: Wind Ventures appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

Spinning a fund out of the corporate parent’s umbrella can be a tricky process. If done right, though, you can end up with a situation where you can enjoy both the benefits of being your own outfit and the advantages of close operational links with a big name corporate. You can have your cake and … Continue reading "Brian Schettler: HorizonX" The post Brian Schettler: HorizonX appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

There has never been a more crucial time to invest in technologies related to defence and security. War in Ukraine and growing geopolitical tensions between the US and China are bringing a new focus to an area that used to be taboo for investors. Global Corporate Venturing editor Maija Palmer talks to Ryan Lewis, partner … Continue reading "Investing in defence tech" The post Investing in defence tech appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

The world is changing, along with the way we look at it and experience it – this includes a merging of the physical world and the virtual one. This “great convergence” forms the basis of the newly unveiled thesis of NGP Capital, the venture firm backed by Nokia. Paul Asel, co-founder of NGP Capital came … Continue reading "Paul Asel: NGP Capital" The post Paul Asel: NGP Capital appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

Air travel is a notoriously hard to decarbonise sector. Next to heavy industry, aviation is the poster child for widespread carbon emissions. For United Airlines, 98% of company-wide emissions come from jet fuel, presenting a huge, but easily identifiable, problem. The airline’s venturing arm, United Airlines Ventures, has already been investing heavily in sustainable aviation … Continue reading "Andrew Chang: United Airlines Ventures" The post Andrew Chang: United Airlines Ventures appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

If it hasn’t already been clear for at least the past decade, there is certainly no doubt of it today: data runs the world. It is embedded into every facet of life, informing us, informing the systems that inform us, informing countless other actors – both public and private – about us. There are gargantuan … Continue reading "Andrew Ferguson: Databricks Ventures" The post Andrew Ferguson: Databricks Ventures appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

I’m joined by GCV’s Kaloyan Andonov, an analyst and reporter who also happens to be a resident data guru, and has put together an extensive collection of data points and graphs, which you can find on the Global Venturing website, looking at how the CVC sector fared in 2022. It looks at questions like how … Continue reading "Last Year in Data" The post Last Year in Data appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

Happy New Year! For our first episode of 2023, one thing is clear – defence is not a business like any other, for obvious reasons. While defence technology will ideally have dual-use or commercial applications in order to expand addressable markets, the reality is that the biggest end user will be a government. This brings … Continue reading "Dan Ateya: RTX Ventures" The post Dan Ateya: RTX Ventures appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

It is our last episode of GVR for the year! To close out 2022, we’re bringing you a recording of a conversation on one of the most interesting subjects in corporate venturing: Space. In the latest episode of GCV’s live webinar series, called The Next Wave, we had an incredible panel of startups and investors … Continue reading "The Next Wave: Investing Beyond Earth – Spacetech" The post The Next Wave: Investing Beyond Earth – Spacetech appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

In all likelihood, you will be acutely aware of the energy crisis we are experiencing virtually all over the world. What you may be less aware of, though it’s been quite common in the news, is the pretty substantial increase in earnings that energy companies, particularly oil and gas companies, have been enjoying over the … Continue reading "Oil and Gas Investment" The post Oil and Gas Investment appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

What does it mean for a corporate venturing unit to be independent? Is that a structural dimension or a cultural one? What are the benefits of having more separation from the mothership, and can it so have drawbacks? GCV senior reporter Kim Moore joins us to discuss these questions and more. Be sure to like, … Continue reading "Should CVCs want more independence?" The post Should CVCs want more independence? appeared first on Global Venturing Review.

We’ve got a big, ongoing story that’s been causing serious ripples across one of the fastest growing industries of the past few years. FTX, the third-largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world, which also has one of the largest corporate venture capital units in the crypto/Web3 sector, has filed for bankruptcy amid swirling allegations of pretty … Continue reading "The collapse of FTX – where next for crypto?" The post The collapse of FTX – where next for crypto? appeared first on Global Venturing Review.