Comment by Nicolas Sauvage, president, TDK Ventures
In a recent article, we reviewed the prolific rise of first time CVCs in the venture capitalist investment space since the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic. TDK Ventures and GCV surveyed CVCs across the globe between April 2020 and June 2021, 49% of investors were first timers getting their start during the pandemic. Initially we hypothesised this would of course be due to the changing demands of the pandemic itself, however, digging deeper through conversations with Professor Claudia Zeisberger of…