CVC Unplugged

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The CVC Unplugged podcast is a weekly show that brings you fascinating and wide-ranging conversations with leading corporate venture capital investors, subject matter experts, startup founders, journalists and other market participants to keep you informed of the most important trends affecting early-stage investing.

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300 episodes
Updated Jul 10, 2025

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Jul 1, 2024 · 52 min
The future of payments – a chat with Visa’s David Rolf
Payments, payments, payments. In a world with a diminishing reliance on cash, payment technology is quite literally making the economy go round. But obviously, it's not always as easy as tapping a credit card. Today I speak to David Rolf, head of Visa Ven
Jun 17, 2024 · 1 hr
The Next Wave Webinar: Investing in the changing world of sports
The world of sports has been seeing some really dramatic shifts in recent years, including huge changes in how sports are consumed – less via the big networks and more via mobile platforms, for example – and that’s having big implications across the space
Jun 10, 2024 · 23 min
The transition from academic to entrepreneur
Universities, by their very nature, have always been strong centres of innovation. Scientific discoveries are routinely made in university research labs – but spinning those discoveries out into an operational business comes with numerous hurdles. Academi
May 27, 2024 · 36 min
Slower and steadier wins the race – Rob Bier’s case against blitzscaling
Just because you can grow very quickly, doesn’t necessarily mean you should. That’s the argument that Rob Bier, managing partner of Trellis Partners and 6:30 Partners, makes against the concept of “blitzscaling”, the hypergrowth philosophy popularised by
May 20, 2024 · 36 min
Let’s give everyone more control over their finances – A conversation with Hugo Bongers
Financial services permeate every other industry, and is a crucial part of everyone’s lives – whether you’re talking about payments, wealth management, or anything else, fintech touches it all. Today I’m joined by Hugo Bongers, partner at Motive Ventures,
May 13, 2024 · 41 min
How to get startups and corporates to fit together – a conversation with VentureFuel’s Fred Schonenberg
Fred Schonenberg is the founder of VentureFuel, a New York-based advisory firm focused on bringing together startups and large organisations, mainly corporates including the likes of Coca-Cola, ABInBev, The Hershey Company, Comcast and more, to efficientl
May 6, 2024 · 20 min
Universities take a more investor-friendly approach to IP
One of the biggest hurdles to getting technology from universities out into the market has been that of intellectual property – who does this technology belong to and who can benefit from it? Traditionally, many universities have been loath to part with t
Apr 29, 2024 · 40 min
A CVC is like an organ transplant, the body would be wrong to fight it – A conversation with Jeppe Hoier
Jeppe Hoier is a long-time venture investor with experience in financial VCs, corporate VCs and on his own as an angel investor, based in Copenhagen, Denmark. A former partner at Maersk Growth, the CVC arm of Danish logistics giant Maersk, Hoier talks abo
Apr 22, 2024 · 45 min
How to effectively manage change and transformation (re-broadcast)
We’re going back into the vault this week! They say that the only constant in life, and business, is change – so how do you manage it effectively? That’s why last year I spoke with Jonny Crowe, a lawyer by training whose long career has been tied together
Apr 15, 2024 · 1 hr 4 min
The Next Wave Webinar: What does the hospital of the future look like?
For a while now, there has been a clear trend, for example, of hospital functions like patient monitoring, diagnostics, and other treatments being moved closer to the patients, even into their homes, which frees up space within hospitals, which of course,
Apr 8, 2024 · 52 min
Why Cencosud Ventures loves contrarian thinking
The way we buy things has been changing. Supercharged by the pandemic, the digital and physical sides of the retail experience continue to merge, data analytics continues to play an increasingly large role in how companies target and sell their products,
Apr 1, 2024 · 46 min
Investing in a strong supply chain
Today I speak with two people who know a lot about getting stuff from A to B– Rose Chen, head of innovation investments and partnerships at supply chain and distribution company Wesco, and Hector Shibata, who has for over half a decade led AC Ventures, th
Mar 25, 2024 · 20 min
A booming market for secondaries
With valuations down from where they were a couple of years ago, the exit horizons that investors had in mind when they made their original investment ended up being further away than they thought. The IPOs are still scarce, and M&As are still too few
Mar 18, 2024 · 49 min
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
Mar 11, 2024 · 42 min
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. Alternative
Mar 4, 2024 · 23 min
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,
Feb 26, 2024 · 45 min
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
Feb 19, 2024 · 1 hr 14 min
The Next Wave Webinar: Venture building – how to avoid the common failures
Today’s show is a bit different – instead of a normal conversation, we’re bringing you GCV’s most recent edition of the Next Wave – our monthly webinar series that features panel discussions on emerging technologies and CVC best practices.
Feb 12, 2024 · 46 min
Blair Tritt: Schreiber Foods
Despite their products being so ubiquitous anywhere you live in the world, and an integral part of so much of what we eat, the B2B egg, dairy and food sectors are among the least digitised out there. What this has opened up is a lot of space for startups
Feb 5, 2024 · 56 min
Bernardita Araya: CMPC Ventures
One of the most exciting up and coming venture ecosystems in Latin America is that of Chile. In an already innovative and fast growing business environment, corporate VCs are sprouting up left and right across the country, and funds are increasing in size