Media
Welcome to the Global University Venturing (GUV) media page which features our videos, including interviews with industry leaders and sessions from our worldwide events, plus our weekly podcast, Global Venturing Review, which covers the week’s biggest news on deals, funds, exits, and people news from corporates, university, and governments.
Global University Venturing Videos
Welcome to our video area, which includes interviews with industry leaders and footage of sessions on stage at our worldwide events.
These videos are published on the Global University Venturing YouTube channel.
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The Global Venturing Review Podcast
March 18, 2024
From automobiles to mobility – how Woven Capital is helping Toyota evolve
There are very few corporates out there that have two CVC funds, Toyota is one of them. Not only does it have an early-stage fund in Toyota Ventures, but also a growth stage unit in Woven Capital – which was previously investing on behalf of , as its name suggests, Woven by Toyota, the automaker’s next-generation mobility business, but has more recently expanded its scope to being the growth investment arm for Toyota as a whole.
The post From automobiles to mobility – how Woven Capital is helping Toyota evolve appeared first on CVC Unplugged.
March 11, 2024
We should temper our expectations for alternate meat, says Grey Silo Ventures
For years now, people – myself included – have been waiting for the advent, in earnest, of plant-based meats. Everyone loves a barbeque, but not the meat industry’s effect on the environment, our health, or the treatment of animals themselves. Alternatives have been coming to the shelf for years now, but the same problems persist – the taste is not quite the same as real meat, and the price is far too high to really compete.
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March 04, 2024
Corporates underpin over half of all Gen AI investment
The story of the past year or so has been artificial intelligence and, in particular, generative artificial intelligence, or gen AI. Doesn’t matter what sector you’re in, or what countries you look at, everyone is trying to apply gen AI to their business, and investors are seeing a gold mine.
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February 27, 2024
A portrait of Sopra Steria’s CVC rebuild
Sopra Steria Ventures, the CVC unit of French IT giant Sopra Steria, has been around for half a decade. After a few years, however, the investment programme was not really yielding any tangible results. The structure was not quite there, the strategy was not quite aligned with the corporate leadership wanted, and the focus was too skewed towards M&A rather than venture itself. A change was needed.
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February 26, 2024
Socheat Chhay: Sopra Steria Ventures
Sopra Steria Ventures, the CVC unit of French IT giant Sopra Steria, has been around for half a decade. After a few years, however, the investment programme was not really yielding any tangible results. The structure was not quite there, the strategy was not quite aligned with the corporate leadership wanted, and the focus was too skewed towards M&A rather than venture itself. A change was needed.
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