Corporate Venturing Insider
de Nicolas Sauvage
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- Paid Pilots and Knowing When to Walk Away with Benji Coetzee from KPN · 22 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 129Can landing a big corporate customer put your startup at risk? Benji Coetzee, Chief Strategy and Growth Officer at KPN, joins Nicolas Sauvage to explore the gap between corporate…
- How Investor Networks Become Useful to Founders with Lu Zhang from Fusion Fund · 24 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 128What makes an investor’s network useful to a founder? Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Lu Zhang, founder of Fusion Fund, about building relationships around a startup’s actual needs…
- Growing the Pizza: Sriram Viswanathan on Building Ecosystems, Not Just Companies · 22 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 127Recorded on July 24, 2026, this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider features Nicolas Sauvage in conversation with Sriram Viswanathan, Founding Managing Partner at Celesta…
- Barbry McGann on Product-Led Corporate Venture and the Future of AI · 21 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 126Filmed at the GCVI 2026 Summit in Monterey, Corporate Venturing Insider #126 features Nicolas Sauvage in conversation with Barbry McGann, co-head of Workday Ventures. Barbry…
- Ana Lopes of IBM Ventures on Translating Science, Supporting Founders, and Building the Next Chapter of Corporate Venture Capital · 21 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 125Interviewed March 25th, 2026 at the GCV Monterey Summit In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Ana Lopes of IBM Ventures about her journey…
- Policy, Capital, and the Future of Innovation: NVCA’s Bobby Franklin on Why VCs and CVCs Must Work Together · 24 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 124Bobby Franklin joins Nicolas Sauvage for a conversation on venture capital policy, the rise of corporate venture capital, AI regulation, and the future of innovation. They…
- 600 Bets, Zero Consensus: How Coinbase Ventures Thinks Differently with Hoolie Tejwani · 25 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 123In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, recorded on March 24, 2026 at the Global Corporate Venturing Innovation Summit in Monterey, Nicolas Sauvage sits down with Hoolie…
- What It’s Like Stepping Into a Moving Venture Machine: Laurel Buckner on BHP Ventures · 23 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 122In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Laurel Buckner, head of BHP Ventures, about what it takes to step into and lead an already established…
- Inside BASF’s AgroStart Model for Startup Collaboration with Mirella Lisboa · 27 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 121In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Mirella Lisboa, Head of AgroStart LatAm at BASF, about how large corporations can turn startup…
- To CVC or Not to CVC: An Examination of Venture Clienting with Francesco Di Lorenzo · 21 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 120In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, recorded January 6, 2026, Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Francesco Di Lorenzo of Copenhagen Business School about the evolution of…
- Proving Value Before Capital: Patricia Kroondijk on Pilots, VC-as-a-Service, and Corporate Venture Design · 25 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 119Interviewed January 5th, 2026 In this episode, Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Patricia Kroondijk of Canon Marketing Japan about building corporate venture capability through venture…
- The Challenges Facing Corporate Venturing and GCV Leadership with Bill Taranto · 19 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 118In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, Nicolas Sauvage sits down with Bill Taranto, founder of the Merck Global Health Innovation Fund and outgoing co-chair of the GCV…
- Passing the Baton: Lessons from Outgoing GCV Co-Chair, Arvind Purushotham · 24 min · Saison 2026 Épisode 117As Nicolas Sauvage steps into the role of co-chair of the GCV Leadership Society, he sits down with outgoing co-chair Arvind Purushotham of Citi Ventures to reflect on how…
- The Compensation Architect: How Jody Thelander Thinks About Incentives, Autonomy, and the Next Decade of CVC · 26 min · Saison 2025 Épisode 116Interviewed October 18, 2025 In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, Nicolas Sauvage sits down with Jody Thelander, founder and CEO of J. Thelander Consulting, to unpack…
- The Scout Bees of Btomorrow Ventures: Guiding BAT Toward Its Next Hive · 27 min · Saison 2025 Épisode 115Interviewed October 6, 2025 In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, Nicolas Sauvage sits down with Annie Goman, Managing Director of Btomorrow Ventures, to explore how…
- Inside BMW’s Venture Client Model: Alexandra Renner on Building the World’s First Venture Client Unit · 31 min · Saison 2025 Épisode 114Interviewed September 25, 2025 In Episode #113 of Corporate Venturing Insider, Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Alexandra Renner, Program Manager at BMW Startup Garage, the world’s…
- Talking Corporate Venturing and “When Goliath Needs David” with Valery Yakubovich from Wharton's Mack Institute · 25 min · Saison 2025 Épisode 113Interviewed August 15th, 2025 In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider #112, Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Valery Yakubovich from Wharton’s Mack Institute about his latest…
- “Steady as She Goes”: Intel Capital Veteran Tammi Smorynski on Boards, Down-Cycles, and Why She’s Teaching the Next Generation · 25 min · Saison 2025 Épisode 112Interviewed August 14, 2025 Nicolas Sauvage interviews Tammi Smorynski—24-year Intel Capital veteran and now GCV Institute instructor—on her winding path from J.P. Morgan to…
- What Kind of Investor Do You Want to Be? A Conversation with Mike Smeed of InMotion Ventures · 27 min · Saison 2025 Épisode 111On July 21st, 2025, Corporate Venturing Insider welcomed Mike Smeed, Managing Director of InMotion Ventures, the CVC arm of Jaguar Land Rover. In conversation with Nicolas…
- How Game Theory, Gut Instinct, and Long-Term Thinking Shape Great Venture Capitalists: A Conversation with Matt Rhodes-Kropf · 27 min · Saison 2025 Épisode 110Tune into our conversation with Matt Rhodes-Kropf, Managing Partner at Tectonic Ventures and Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management. Interviewed on March 28th, 2025
