Galijasevic predicts collaborations among corporate VCs and startups will only accelerate as they look to innovative technologies to address customer needs during tumultuous times.

Lambert told GCV she believes investors will continue to back portfolio companies, but the inability to meet potential portfolio companies on the ground will hinder new investments.

The Ping An subsidiary is providing strategic assistance to portfolio companies during the Covid-19 pandemic, though managing director Lacey cautioned that startups with high burn rates are facing high risk.

In the first of a new series, Dominque Mégret, head of Swisscom Ventures, tells GCV that the Covid-19 crisis could lead to a greater contrast between CVC's winners and losers.

Comment from Nicolas Leyssieux, senior investment director, Bamboo Capital Partners

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