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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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  • Aug 7, 2023 · 57 min

    Debbie Brackeen: CSAA Insurance

    Every successful business needs a strategy, and every business will need to innovate to survive. Strategy, of course, sets out long-term direction and intentionality, while innovation, by definition deals with new things, which naturally can be disruptive

  • Jul 31, 2023 · 50 min

    Miles Kirby: Deeptech Labs

    My guest today is Miles Kirby, CEO of Deeptech Labs, the Cambridge-based accelerator and investor focused, as its name suggests, on deep tech – which is of course an umbrella term encompassing a broad set of new technologies such as artificial intelligenc

  • May 8, 2023 · 42 min

    Mario Augusto Maia: Cogent Venture Partners

    Setting up a corporate venture capital unit comes with a lot of hurdles. You have to deal with a wide range of stakeholders, and you have to find a place to fit within the wider corporate structure, much of which is not necessarily well-versed in the valu

  • May 1, 2023 · 42 min

    Jeffrey Grabow: EY

    The scale and speed with which the venture market has changed over the past year has caused some whiplash for startups and investors alike. All of a sudden, we find ourselves in an environment with higher inflation, higher interest rates, and much more di

  • Apr 24, 2023 · 46 min

    Dina Routhier & Michael Mahan – Stanley Ventures

    One of the interesting shifts that happened during the covid pandemic was in building things. Larger construction projects slowed down while at home DIY projects took off as people had to spend inside. This is but one of the patterns that Stanley Ventures

  • Apr 17, 2023 · 43 min

    Erin VanLanduit: Cargill Ventures

    Everyone needs to eat, and as one of the largest private companies in the world, Cargill has played a large role in providing much of what, at least in the US, shows up in supermarkets. But what does the future of food look like? And what innovation is ne

  • Apr 10, 2023 · 48 min

    Raj Singh: JLL Spark Global Ventures

    Every business needs a space, but how will those spaces be valued in the future? Commercial real estate is in the beginning stages of some important changes in the way it looks, operates, shares its space, and even where it is located, much of the changes

  • Apr 3, 2023 · 54 min

    Lukasz Garbowski: Btomorrow Ventures

    Btomorrow Ventures (BTV), the venturing unit of British American Tobacco, is a CVC unlike the rest, in the sense that While the typical aim of corporate venturing is to complement and innovate on top of its parent company’s business, BTV’s main purpose is

  • Mar 20, 2023 · 42 min

    Brian Walsh: Wind Ventures

    What does it mean to grant “unfair” access to a region? That’s what Wind Ventures, the venture capital arm of Chilean energy company Copec, wants to do for its portfolio companies wanting exposure to the Latin American market. With a wide remit that prima

  • Mar 13, 2023 · 52 min

    Brian Schettler: HorizonX

    Spinning a fund out of the corporate parent’s umbrella can be a tricky process. If done right, though, you can end up with a situation where you can enjoy both the benefits of being your own outfit and the advantages of close operational links with a big

  • Mar 6, 2023 · 32 min

    Investing in defence tech

    There has never been a more crucial time to invest in technologies related to defence and security. War in Ukraine and growing geopolitical tensions between the US and China are bringing a new focus to an area that used to be taboo for investors. Global C

  • Feb 27, 2023 · 40 min

    Paul Asel: NGP Capital

    The world is changing, along with the way we look at it and experience it – this includes a merging of the physical world and the virtual one. This “great convergence” forms the basis of the newly unveiled thesis of NGP Capital, the venture firm backed by

  • Feb 21, 2023 · 43 min

    Andrew Chang: United Airlines Ventures

    Air travel is a notoriously hard to decarbonise sector. Next to heavy industry, aviation is the poster child for widespread carbon emissions. For United Airlines,…

  • Jan 30, 2023 · 41 min

    Andrew Ferguson: Databricks Ventures

    If it hasn’t already been clear for at least the past decade, there is certainly no doubt of it today: data runs the world. It…

  • Jan 23, 2023 · 31 min

    Last Year in Data

    I’m joined by GCV’s Kaloyan Andonov, an analyst and reporter who also happens to be a resident data guru, and has put together an extensive…

  • Jan 16, 2023 · 40 min

    Dan Ateya: RTX Ventures

    Happy New Year! For our first episode of 2023, one thing is clear – defence is not a business like any other, for obvious reasons.…

  • Dec 12, 2022 · 30 min

    Oil and Gas Investment

    In all likelihood, you will be acutely aware of the energy crisis we are experiencing virtually all over the world. What you may be less…

  • Nov 28, 2022 · 14 min

    Should CVCs want more independence?

    What does it mean for a corporate venturing unit to be independent? Is that a structural dimension or a cultural one? What are the benefits…