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Is Financial-First
the Future of CVC Funds?
Corporate venture fund objectives span the entire range from being primarily strategic to being "financial first", along the lines of traditional institutional VCs.
* Why have Google, Cisco, SAP, & Deutsche Telekom all sponsored financial first venture groups?
* What does a financially driven fund bring back to the parent in terms of strategic value?
* Are financial-first corporate venture funds more attractive to entrepreneurs than strategics? To other investors/VCs for co-investment?
* Are the advantages of financial-funds sector specific,and stage specific?
Is "financial-first" the shape of things to come?
Moderator
Eric Ver Ploeg
Managing Director, Venture Capital
Deutsch Telekom Capital Partners
Eric is a Managing Director at Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners in the Venture Capital team. He serves as a Board Member/Observer at Anomali, CipherCloud, Innovid, Inuitive, Pinger, Ranovus, & ShareThis.
Prior to DTCP, Eric was a Managing Director at VantagePoint Venture Partners, where he headed the mobile practice, leading rounds of funding at Spatial Wireless, OZ Communications, & many others. Eric has personally invested in numerous startups & has also run a quant hedge fund. Before beginning his investing career, Eric co-founded two venture-backed startups, where he raised five rounds of venture capital.
Eric earned a BSc in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, as well as an MBA & a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Panelists
Rashmi Gopinath
Partner
M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)
Rashmi leads enterprise software investments for M12 in the Bay Area. She brings a combination of strong venture capital & startup operating experience. Previously, Rashmi was an Investment Director at Intel Capital focused on investing in cloud, infrastructure, & big data companies. She also led global business development for high-growth startups Couchbase & BlueData. Prior to that, she held business development & product development positions at GE & Oracle. Rashmi has an MBA from the J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University & a Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Mumbai in India.
Albert Kim, Ph.D.
Vice President
Head of Ericsson Ventures
Albert is a seasoned venture capitalist, with over a decade & a half of experience. Prior to Ericsson, Albert was a Managing Director at Investor Growth Capital - the late stage VC arm of Investor AB. He is also an applied physicist with over 10 peer reviewed journal publications. Albert earned hisDiplomdegree at the RWTH Aachen in Germany, & a Ph.D. in Applied Physics at Harvard University.
Sean Foote
Managing Director
Co=Creation=Capital
Sean has twenty years of venture capital experience, including the creation of new investing structures. He has also been a part-time professor at U.C. Berkeley's HAAS School of Business for eighteen years, teaching courses in venture capital & private equity. Prior to this, he was a Principal at BCG, & a Systems Engineer & AT&T Bell Labs. As part of being a hands on Co=Creation investor, Sean also manages Data Science for Live Reach Media, a portfolio company, doing traffic & people analysis for public spaces.
Inder Singh
CVC Program Chair
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