Comment from Anik Bose and Venkat Raghavan, BGV Partners, and Christophe Bourguignat, Zelros

Comment from Patrick Flesner, partner, LeadX Capital Partners and Stephan Bank, partner, SMP

GCV spoke with Giancarlo Savini, who has recently left Shell Ventures and joined Honeywell Ventures, the corporate venturing arm of industrial product and software producer Honeywell.

Comment by Simon Goldman, investment director, UCL Technology Fund

Young Sohn, who is now a senior adviser at Samsung, will create a new venture fund with Shankar Chandran and Francis Ho, former heads of Samsung’s Catalyst corporate venturing unit.

We clearly live in a golden age for innovation as, despite backward-looking concerns, funding and ideas feed off each other to support the next wave of productivity and products and services.

Comment from Bedy Yang, managing partner and head of ecosystems, 500vc, and Ee-Ling Lim, regional director for Asia-Pacific

Comment from Carol Strobel, operating partner, Redpoint eVentures, Brazil

Comment from Vanessa Colella, chief innovation officer, Citi, and David Kidder, co-founder and CEO, Bionic

Comment from Amy Burr, managing director, JetBlue Technology Ventures