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What if your t-shirt could help heal your sports injury?

UK startup Kymira supplies elite sports teams with garments with infrared technology that can speed muscle recovery and healing. Next, it wants to bring these to medical settings.

Jul 15, 2024

Corporate AI funds: The list

Wondering which corporate venturers have specialist investment funds for artificial intelligence? Here is the list of traditional funds and new units, offshoots and accelerators.

Jun 25, 2024

CVC is key to making South Africa a startup hotspot

South Africa's strong fintech sector, financial and regulatory systems make it an opportunity for foreign investors, but local corporates need to help seed the startup ecosystem.

Jun 19, 2024

CVC Unplugged: Self-driving money is the next step in fintech

Hugo Bongers, partner at Motive Ventures, joins the show to talk all things fintech, and how financial democratisation is right around the corner.

May 23, 2024

Measure everything and keep egos in check — the secret to startup collaboration

Make money with corporate partners instead of raising money from VC's is Fred Schonenberg of VentureFuel's advice to startups.

May 14, 2024

Smart cities — are corporates missing an investment opportunity?

Cities are already smart, just not connected. It's here that there is a big opportunity for CVC investors to get involved.

May 13, 2024

This is what insurance sector investors are looking for now

Insurance CVCs are eyeing up the potential of AI even if regulation may make adoption slow. Climate risk mitigation and quantum are also on the menu. Blockchain — not so much.

May 2, 2024

CVC Unplugged: The corporate is the body, the CVC is a transplant.

When Jeppe Hoier first joined Maersk Ventures, he wasn't convinced that corporate venturing was a good idea. But over five years at the unit he saw the benefits a CVC investor could offer.

May 1, 2024

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The new wave of insurtech startups wants to partner, not disrupt

The first wave of insurtech startups hit the wall trying to fight the industry's biggest players. Now, insurance CVCs say they're seeking the ones embracing a partnership model.

Apr 25, 2024

CVC Unplugged: How Cencosud Ventures learned to go against the grain

A partnership with Cornershop during the pandemic opened Chilean retail giant Cencosud's eys to startups. Its new CVC arm now isn't afraid to be contrarian.

Apr 9, 2024

Woven Capital is helping Toyota move from automobiles to mobility

Woven Capital managing partner George Kellerman joins the CVC Unplugged podcast to talk about how his $800m growth fund is now Toyota-wide.

Mar 21, 2024

Communicate, be resilient, and know when to leave: how CVC units can…

Creating a resilient strategy, constantly communicating their value and knowing when to spin out will help corporate investment units increase their longevity.

Mar 20, 2024

Scaling alternate meats is an uphill battle - CVC Unplugged

Cereal Docks’ CVC chief tells CVC Unplugged that getting plant-based proteins competitive again will be difficult but not impossible.

Mar 15, 2024

CVC Unplugged: How Sopra Steria fixed a CVC strategy that wasn't working

Sopra Steria Ventures wasn't delivering value for the parent company. Socheat Chhay came in a year ago to turn the unit around.

Feb 28, 2024

Editor's Picks

Corporate AI funds: The list

Wondering which corporate venturers have specialist investment funds for artificial intelligence? Here is the list of traditional funds and new units, offshoots and accelerators.

Jun 25, 2024

The Big Deal: Meatable readies its lab-grown meat for market

The alternative meat sector is struggling but DSM Venturing believes there is a future for lab grown meat as regulatory hurdles are overcome.

Aug 15, 2023

Europe has the tools to match the US on deep tech

A growing appetite to commercialise European research is bridging the trans-Atlantic technology gap, according to Deeptech Labs’ Miles Kirby.

Aug 1, 2023

AI that will read your car manual and tell you when to…

And several other bets that Jaguar Land Rover's InMotion Ventures is making on what the car will look like in 10 years.

May 19, 2023
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