Insights from the GCV Digital Forum 2.0

Sir Ronald Cohen's insights from his second book, Impact: Reshaping Capitalism to Drive Real Change, lay out a methodology for adding impact to the usual risk and return decision-making for investing.

Congratulations to Mike Cavanagh at Comcast for taking up the reins of its ventures unit after Amy Banse's decision to retire next year.

My thanks to Ken Gatz, CEO at deal management software platform Proseeder, for running the past two days’ pitch events covering sustainability and mobility on 22nd and financial and deep technology yesterday.

There are some useful lessons when looking at climate change and limiting or reversing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to look back at the first global initiative to tackle similar concerns over the ozone layer holes caused by CFCs.

Sweden-listed investment holding company Kinnevik’s history is one of pivots.

Exploring Bessemer’s memo page on some of their deals and how they came to invest.

Congratulations to all the venturing community for coming together to celebrate the GCV Powerlist 100 and see you all at the Digital Forum on the 29th and associated events, including next week’s GCV Connect powered by Proseeder pitch sessions (22-23rd) and the Mach49-hosted workshops on the 28th.

Next month sees the long-awaited changes to bank regulations, which could see an upsurge in their venture capital (VC) fundraising, according to data provider Pitchbook which has tracked the changes.

There still remains such a chasm of scale between venture approaches to important strategic technology areas between countries.