Global Venturing Review Podcast
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What’s it like to come into corporate VCs from the outside as a contractor? My guest is Bruno Meireles de Sousa, who is an operating parter at Bidra Innovation Ventures, the CVC of phosphate mining c...Show More
2) Secondaries are breaking into the mainstream
The whole point of investing is to hopefully get your money back at some point. But what if, as we’ve seen, the usual routes to doing that are effectively blocked off? Ideally, a VC might want to thei...Show More
3) Do we have enough energy to power the AI future?
The ugly truth behind the AI revolution is that it needs to be powered from somewhere. Every query you make into ChatGPT or DeepSeek of Claude takes energy. Energy that has to be generated at a power ...Show More
4) Why invest in LatAm
Latin America is one of the fastest growing regions in the world, with a growing number of unicorns, an increasing array of international investors looking to get a foothold, and ever more savvy entre...Show More
5) Getting rid of bias in the investment process
Human decision-making – even when a lot of money is at stake, is not always rational. A lot of the time it’s based on intangible factors that influence people in ways that can’t be explained or just...Show More
6) Economic ruts are a good time to double down
In recent months we’ve seen quite a few corporate VC units either shut down, or get spun off, as their corporate parents grapple with how to deal with a tough macroeconomic environment. That’s not alw...Show More
7) Investing in the in-space economy
Space has historically been the domain of governments – as that has changed and it’s becoming a more private sector-based commercial endeavour, something else has been changing too, and that is that w...Show More
8) Dealing with an unprecedented demand for power
Demand on the power grid is not getting any lower, in fact it’s growing faster than ever, and putting real pressure on the existing infrastructure. As more energy-hungry customers like data centres ar...Show More
9) Protecting critical infrastructure is big business
The world is becoming, if not a more dangerous place, then perhaps a testier one. Over the past decade or so, we’ve seen an intensifying staccato of cyber attacks against critical infrastructure and o...Show More
10) Canada’s startups navigate the new normal
My guest today is Talia Abramowitz, managing partner of Deloitte Ventures, a unit which has made the vast majority of its direct investments in Canadian startups and is well-placed to speak to the fee...Show More