Comment from Penny Schiffer, SME head of startup initiative, Swisscom.

In January, my colleague Dominique Mégret, head of Swisscom Ventures, was invited to kick off the Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation Summit in Sonoma Valley in California – the corporate venturing industry’s annual get-together. As co-chairman of the event, Dominique shared some observations that illustrate the growing relevance and expanding scope of the corporate venture capital domain in the past couple of years.

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