UPS, Mercedes-Benz and Yamaha are among the corporates using venture activity to assess technology in the transport space.
A suitable headline for the discussion in a sector workshop developed by Apex-Brasil could well be “future-proofing an industry riding a wave of disruption”.
That, indeed, was the title of a keynote presentation by Rimas Kapeskas, managing director of US-based delivery company UPS’s Strategic Enterprise Fund, during the Corporate Venture in Brasil 2016 conference.
Kapeskas said, to a corporation, venturing could look like outsourced research and development, and early-stage venture deals just experiments and opportunities from which to learn what…
