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.

Q&A with Tarik Galijasevic, managing director, Allstate Strategic Ventures

Q&A with Héctor Shibata Salazar, director of investments and portfolio, AC Ventures

Q&A with Maxwell Swicegood, vice-president, and Min Park, director, Wells Fargo Strategic Capital

Q&A with Stefan Gabriel, managing director and CEO, Hitachi Ventures

Q&A with Andrew Casey, corporate development deal lead, Vanguard Strategic Business Development

Comment by James Mawson, editor-in-chief, Global Corporate Venturing, Stefan Gabriel, CEO, Hitachi Ventures, Kenichi Funaki, deputy general manager for the corporate venturing office, Hitachi

Last month, Jeff Herbst departed from US-headquartered semiconductor technology provider Nvidia, where he had led its business development activities and corporate venture capital (CVC) unit Nvidia GPU Ventures for two decades starting in 2001.

Q&A with Jacqueline LeSage, founder and managing director, Munich Re Ventures