Global Corporate Venturing Symposium 2017

Day 1

Helping entrepreneurs scale up and globalise was a key element of the first day of 2017’s GCV Symposium in London last month. The first day showed that the corporate venture capital (CVC) industry has taken to heart the message of Sue Siegel of GE Ventures – who declared at the Global Corporate Venturing & Innovation Summit in January that “its time is now” – displaying its confidence and ambition to work with the broader venture community to help entrepreneurs scale up and globalise.

There was a wealth of topical insights – from Nagraj Kashyap (Microsoft Ventures), George Ugras (IBM Ventures), Tony Askew (REV Venture Partners), Andrew Hinkly (Anglo American), Jacqueline LeSage Krause (Munich Re/HSB Ventures, David Mayhew (GE Ventures), Geoff McGrath (McLaren Applied Technologies), Bill Taranto (Merck Global Health Innovation) and Ana Segurado (Telefónica, Open Future) – into the challenges of…