CVC Unplugged

Oct 27 2024 300 ep. 29 mins 12

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The CVC Unplugged podcast is a weekly show that brings you fascinating and wide-ranging conversations with leading corporate venture capital investors, subject matter experts, startup founders, journalists and other market participants to keep you informed of the most important trends affecting early-stage investing.

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How Olympus Innovation Ventures is looking into the human body

Oct 27 2024 44 mins

To fix things in the human body, you have to see them. This is what Olympus does. The legendary Japanese camera-maker, which in recent years divested its camera business and went full-tilt into medical devices, retains its core strength of optics and doubling down in its application to medicine.

Opening a new CVC office in the US is not easy – here’s how Lotte Ventures is doing it

Oct 20 2024 31 mins

With Lotte Group’s expansion into biotech, it wanted its CVC, Lotte Ventures, to set up a new office in the world’s largest biotech innovation ecosystem, the US, with a new – 3-person team in the Bay Area. But going into a new market is never a walk in the park.

The US healthcare system has a huge resource shortage. Here’s how small and medium-sized investors can help plug the gap.

Oct 13 2024 40 mins

The group of smaller and medium-sized investors has been growing, and their value has never been clearer to founders and co-investors. They tend not to seek M&As, neutralising a concern that some startups have about having corporates on their cap table, while still bringing the advantage of corporate connections. They often place an even heavier emphasis on the health of the invest

Petcare will be a half-trillion-dollar market in the next decade, and its not just treats and toys

Oct 06 2024 47 mins

If you have a pet, you will no doubt have come across one of Mars Petcare’s brands – Pedigree, Whiskas, Iams, Royal Canin, and many others – it is the biggest company in a global petcare market which, depending on what figures you look at, stood at around $250bn last year and is en-route to nearly half a trillion over the next decade.

Radical change is needed to fix CVC’s gender problem. Here are some ideas.

Sep 29 2024 21 mins

Today I’m talking to my colleague Angela Logan, news and production editor at GCV. Angela recently had a very interesting interview with Nichola Bates, head of global accelerators and innovation programmes at Boeing (which you can read here) in which Bates spoke about what it’s been like to be a woman in the corporate VC industry, how in the past there were times when she wasn�

Investing in the hard assets of cleantech – a conversation with TechEnergy Ventures’ Alejandro Solé

Sep 22 2024 50 mins

My guest today is Alejandro Solé, chief investment officer of TechEnergy Ventures, the CVC unit for the energy transition division of Tecpetrol, an energy company that is part of Italian-Argentine industrial conglomerate Techint group, which has under its umbrella companies in areas like steelmaking, engineering and construction, and energy.

Making investing for everyone – a conversation with FISV’s Alokik Advani

Sep 15 2024 37 mins

Investment is no longer the exclusive domain of investors. Increasingly sophisticated tools are coming on the market that are giving everyone access to investment capabilities that used to be confined to institutions and financial professionals. My guest today is Alokik Advani, managing partner of Fidelity International Strategic Ventures – or FISV – the CVC unit of asset manag

Sabanci wants to invest $200m into renewables technology

Sep 08 2024 45 mins

My guest today is Murat Arcan, managing director of Sabanci Climate Ventures, the CVC unit of Sabanci Climate Technologies, the international energy arm of one of Turkey’s largest conglomerates.

Venture clienting as an entry point for more risk-averse corporates

Sep 01 2024 42 mins

As companies are increasingly looking for faster innovation cycles and increased collaboration with startups, but don’t always want the risk associated with direct investment, venture clienting has grown massively in popularity in recent years.

Can mining be at the forefront of the energy transition? A conversation with Vale Ventures’ Bruno Arcadier

Aug 25 2024 51 mins

Paradoxical though it may seem that an industry as extractive in nature as mining would be so important to making the world more sustainable, that’s exactly the case. Partly that’s because of the need to reduce its own impact – bringing down its emissions and reducing its waste – but also because most other energy transition technologies rely on metals that need to be mined