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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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 company OCPGroup. And he joined me to talk about what he’s seen going from unit to unit across a number of sectors.
He tells me about his experience going from a very big corporate in Cargill – where he did both venture investing and venture building – to a smaller parent company when joining Bidra Ventures, and what corporates should keep in mind when doing both investing and venture building.
We talk about what indicators he sees that a venture unit is healthy when he parachutes into it, how to effectively bring attention to things that senior leadership might find uncomfortable, and how to gain trust internally when coming in from the outside, and more.
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485 - Advice from a CVC freelancer Thu, 10 Jul 2025 - 0h
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484 - Secondaries are breaking into the mainstream Thu, 03 Jul 2025 - 0h
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483 - Do we have enough energy to power the AI future? Thu, 26 Jun 2025 - 0h
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482 - Why invest in LatAm Thu, 12 Jun 2025 - 0h
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481 - Getting rid of bias in the investment process Thu, 22 May 2025 - 0h
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480 - Economic ruts are a good time to double down Thu, 15 May 2025 - 0h
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479 - Investing in the in-space economy Thu, 08 May 2025 - 0h
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478 - Dealing with an unprecedented demand for power Thu, 01 May 2025 - 0h
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477 - Protecting critical infrastructure is big business Thu, 24 Apr 2025 - 0h
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476 - Canada’s startups navigate the new normal Thu, 17 Apr 2025 - 0h
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475 - How CVCs can help hard-tech startups Wed, 09 Apr 2025 - 0h
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474 - How innovation can keep democracies ahead Thu, 03 Apr 2025 - 0h
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473 - Everyone is waiting for IPOs, but will market uncertainty delay them? Thu, 27 Mar 2025 - 0h
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472 - The coming Web3 acquisition wave Thu, 20 Mar 2025 - 0h
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471 - rEnergy Partners: Charting a new course as a spun-out cleantech investor Thu, 13 Mar 2025 - 0h
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470 - Cencosud Ventures: Venture clienting should involve skin in the game Thu, 06 Mar 2025 - 0h
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469 - BMW i Ventures: Carmakers must innovate to navigate rapid technology shift Thu, 27 Feb 2025 - 0h
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468 - Leaps by Bayer: Agtech investors look for zebras, not unicorns. Thu, 20 Feb 2025 - 0h
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467 - Argentina’s turbulent economy is a forge for fintech founders Thu, 13 Feb 2025 - 0h
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466 - Looking ahead at fintech’s comeback Mon, 27 Jan 2025 - 0h
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465 - We are in another iPhone Cambrian explosion for the chips industry Mon, 09 Dec 2024 - 0h
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464 - Torq hopes to replicate Brazil’s fintech success across LatAm Mon, 02 Dec 2024 - 0h
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463 - Best Nights VC wants people to meet in real life again Mon, 25 Nov 2024 - 0h
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462 - How to get first-of-a-kind cleantech projects off the ground Mon, 18 Nov 2024 - 0h
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461 - M&A and liquidity making a slower comeback in healthcare, but CVCs are stepping up to the plate Mon, 11 Nov 2024 - 0h
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460 - While others are cautious in a slower Brazilian market, L4 wants to be greedy Mon, 04 Nov 2024
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459 - How Olympus Innovation Ventures is looking into the human body Mon, 28 Oct 2024 - 0h
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458 - Opening a new CVC office in the US is not easy – here’s how Lotte Ventures is doing it Mon, 21 Oct 2024 - 0h
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457 - The US healthcare system has a huge resource shortage. Here’s how small and medium-sized investors can help plug the gap. Mon, 14 Oct 2024 - 0h
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456 - Petcare will be a half-trillion-dollar market in the next decade, and its not just treats and toys Mon, 07 Oct 2024 - 0h
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455 - Radical change is needed to fix CVC’s gender problem. Here are some ideas. Mon, 30 Sep 2024 - 0h
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454 - Investing in the hard assets of cleantech – a conversation with TechEnergy Ventures’ Alejandro Solé Mon, 23 Sep 2024 - 0h
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453 - Making investing for everyone – a conversation with FISV’s Alokik Advani Mon, 16 Sep 2024 - 0h
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452 - Sabanci wants to invest $200m into renewables technology Mon, 09 Sep 2024 - 0h
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451 - Venture clienting as an entry point for more risk-averse corporates Mon, 02 Sep 2024 - 0h
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450 - Can mining be at the forefront of the energy transition? A conversation with Vale Ventures’ Bruno Arcadier Mon, 26 Aug 2024 - 0h
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449 - LatAm is hungrier for venture service providers – a conversation with Innova 360’s Laura Chicurel Mon, 19 Aug 2024 - 0h
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448 - Should accelerators chase revenue instead of investment? Mon, 05 Aug 2024 - 0h
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447 - Innovating in an intractable healthcare system Mon, 29 Jul 2024 - 0h
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446 - A year of learning at InMotion Ventures – Mike Smeed returns Mon, 15 Jul 2024 - 0h
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445 - The future of payments – a chat with Visa’s David Rolf Mon, 01 Jul 2024 - 0h
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444 - The Next Wave Webinar: Investing in the changing world of sports Mon, 17 Jun 2024
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443 - The transition from academic to entrepreneur Mon, 10 Jun 2024 - 0h
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442 - Slower and steadier wins the race – Rob Bier’s case against blitzscaling Mon, 27 May 2024 - 0h
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441 - Let’s give everyone more control over their finances – A conversation with Hugo Bongers Mon, 20 May 2024 - 0h
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440 - How to get startups and corporates to fit together – a conversation with VentureFuel’s Fred Schonenberg Mon, 13 May 2024 - 0h
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439 - Universities take a more investor-friendly approach to IP Mon, 06 May 2024 - 0h
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438 - A CVC is like an organ transplant, the body would be wrong to fight it – A conversation with Jeppe Hoier Mon, 29 Apr 2024 - 0h
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437 - How to effectively manage change and transformation (re-broadcast) Mon, 22 Apr 2024 - 0h
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436 - The Next Wave Webinar: What does the hospital of the future look like? Mon, 15 Apr 2024