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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier

November 2021 issue editorial by James Mawson, editor in chief, Global Corporate Venturing

GCV Symposium 2021 review

The 10th annual Global Corporate Venturing Symposium marked the first return to Europe of the main corporate, university and government venturing units alongside the rest of the venture capital and startup ecosystem. Its mission is: informing, connecting, and transforming the venture ecosystem.

Fireside chat with Presidio Ventures

The UK’s Department for International Trade’s (DIT) venture capital unit talked with Japan-based Sumitomo’s corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, Presidio Ventures, on the opening of its European office in London ahead of the COP26 event in early November.

GCV Symposium 2021: What is next after CVC? Mach49 and building a venture factory

Mach49’s Linda Yates and Paul Holland moderated a session dealing with “venture factories” within corporations, featuring Airbus’ Christian Lindener and Hitachi’s Laurent Guengant.

New challenges and bigger opportunities

Comment by Simon Bond, SETsquared

Tech-tonic shifts: technology is reshaping the global economy

Comment by Matthew Crupi, Chris Johnson and David Crawford, Bain

Renewable energy innovation and Israel’s ‘team of teams’ climate tech investing approach

Kaloyan Andonov spoke with Roee Furman, managing director of Doral Energy-Tech Ventures, the recently established CVC unit of Israel-based renewable energy group Doral and one of the active investors in energy innovation

Covid-19 drove more corporations to explore venture capital

Comment by James Mawson and Nicolas Sauvage, managing director of TDK Ventures

Corporate venturing with deeptech startups: Lessons learnt from Asia

Comment by IESE Business School co-authors Josemaria Siota and professor M JuliaPrats, together with researcher Vittoria Emanuela Bria

Financial services move upward

Sector report: financial services

Singapore shows signs of exponential growth

Innovative region: Singapore

Corporate venturing continues to grow in October

Monthly data: October 2021