Dominique Mégret started Swisscom Ventures in 2005 and has been pivotal in the creation of a global network of information and communication technology corporate venturers, including as inaugural chairman of the planned industry trade body.
He joined Swisscom, the Switzerland-based telecoms group, in 2002 as head of the group strategy department and led the creation of the corporate venturing unit.
As the Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation Summit’s co-chair, in January he issued a wake-up call for European corporate venturing organisations.
This came after explaining the iterations Swisscom Ventures had gone through over its first decade to develop into an evergreen model – where returns from deals are reinvested in new portfolio companies – with an early-stage fund that had made 15 deals in the two years to November.
Mégret has identified venturing as a team game, with different people involved in the introduction, participation management and exit phases of deals as well the development of the Swisscom Ventures Early Stage Fund and Swisscom Startup Challenge, for which he gave a commendation to GCV Rising Star Stefan Kuentz.
Previously, Mégret was an entrepreneur in the UK, strategy consultant in the European telecoms industry and country manager for an IT company in Germany. He co-founded venture firm Kick-Start Ventures.
He currently serves on the boards of Mona Lisa VC Fund, Glass 2 Energy, Quantenna, where he is an observer, as well as Adello and Assia, where he is an adviser. Dominique has an MBA from Insead.
Swisscom’s investment activity since the beginning of 2015
