Julie Kainz of Salesforce Ventures and Marc Rennard from Orange Digital Ventures discussed topics such as alignment with a corporate parent and the importance of streamlined processes.

The first session on the second day of 2019’s Global Corporate Venturing Symposium was moderated by Josemaria Siota, director of research at the Spain-based IESE Business School, who referred to an article he had written detailing the seven lies of corporate venturing.

Julie Kainz, an investor at Salesforce Ventures, enterprise software producer Salesforce’s corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, and Marc Rennard, president of Orange Digital Ventures, telecommunications firm Orange’s investment arm, discussed the points.

When asked how a CVC…

Edison Fu

Edison Fu is a reporter and Asia liaison at Global Corporate Venturing.