For more than 30 years, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) has helped innovative companies and their investors move bold ideas forward, fast. SVB provides targeted financial services and expertise through its offices in innovation centers around the world. With commercial, international and private banking services, SVB helps address the unique needs of innovators. Forbes named SVB one of America’s best banks (2015) and one of America’s best-managed companies (2014). Corporate Website: http://www.svb.com/uk
Concentrating on the core sectors where BP operates, BP Ventures identifies and accelerates the development of game-changing innovations. It does this by partnering with technology entrepreneurs who are working at the frontiers of their fields. The current investment portfolio is focused on emerging, strategic technologies, in oil and gas as well as downstream technologies. Corporate Website: http://www.bp.com
Intramezzo is a leading executive and non-executive search firm, with 13 years’ experience in the international corporate venturing market. Specialising in the invested community, we help companies ranging from start-ups to corporates, to accelerate commercialisation and growth through the provision of world-class talent Corporate Website: http://www.intramezzo.co.uk/ Corporate Social Media Links: Twitter: @intramezzoETS LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/intramezzo
PwC is founded on a culture of partnership with a strong commercial focus. This is reflected in our vision: "One firm - a powerhouse of a commercial enterprise that does the right thing for our clients, our people and our communities." Our goal is to build the iconic professional services firm, always front of mind, because we aim to be the best. We set the standard and we drive the agenda for our profession. We understand the challenges a company faces setting up and running a Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) business. Our industry and technical expertise, which encompasses all aspects of creating, implementing and running a CVC business, puts us in a unique position to advise the CVC throughout its lifetime. Corporate Website: http://www.pwc.co.uk/ Corporate Venture Capital page: http://www.pwc.co.uk/deals/corporate-venture.jhtml Corporate Social Media Links: Twitter: @PwC_UK LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/pwc-uk
Baker Botts is an international law firm of approximately 725 lawyers practicing throughout a network of 14 offices around the globe. Based on our experience and knowledge of our clients’ industries, we are recognized as a leading firm in the energy, technology and life sciences sectors. Throughout our 175-year history, we have provided creative and effective legal solutions for our clients while demonstrating an unrelenting commitment to excellence. Corporate Website: https://www.bakerbotts.com Corporate Social Media Links: Twitter: @BakerBotts Linkedin: BakerBotts
Worldwide demand for sustainable agriculture, food, water, bio-products and energy is driving innovation and extending agriculture into new global markets. Bioenterprise Capital is one of the premier investment firms targeting global opportunities in agricultural technology. Utilizing a diversified investment strategy, Bioenterprise Capital applies its comprehensive domain expertise to all of our investments, from seed stage to mature high growth companies. Our management team brings more than six decades of collective venture capital experience, while our Management Advisory Board and our Science and Innovation Advisory Committee provide expert oversight. Bioenterprise Capital offers unparalleled access to an investment market poised for substantial growth. Corporate Website: http://www.bioenterprisecapital.com
At Clareo our mission is to help businesses grow. We help leaders create new ways to grow — core, adjacent and new business — and build the plans and capabilities needed to get there. We assist clients in improving strategy execution, developing entrepreneurial capability, commercializing new ideas, exploring plausible futures, adapting to emerging threats and increasing competitiveness through corporate venture capital. We do all this with our clients, not just for them, so the outcome is buy-in and an actionable road map, not a book or set of slides that sit on the shelf. When needed, we’ll even come alongside to help our clients achieve their plans. Our clients look for Clareo when they want bold new ideas, outside-in thinking fueled by a network of leading global experts and plans that lead to action and results. Corporate Website: www.clareopartners.com/
Link: https://www.geventures.com GE Ventures is committed to identifying, scaling and accelerating ideas that will make the world work better. Focused on the areas of software, advanced manufacturing, energy and healthcare, GE Ventures helps entrepreneurs and start-ups succeed by providing access to GE’s technical expertise, capital and opportunities for commercialization through GE’s global network of business, customers and partners. GE Ventures offers an unparalleled level of resources through its Global Research Center, including: 35,000 engineers; 5,000 research scientists; 8,000 software professionals; as well as 40,000 sales, marketing and development resources in over 100 countries. Corporate Website: For more information, please visit http://geventures.com/.
MJ Hudson is a specialist law firm servicing the needs of its clients in the alternative asset industry. MJ Hudson’s team of experts operates both onshore and offshore through Europe and Asia, and is dedicated to advising GPs and LPs in private equity and venture capital, as well as hedge funds, real estate and other alternative asset classes. Corporate Website: http://www.mjhudson.com/
Relevant Equity Systems Apps for CV Professionals Relevant EquityWorks is software designed around the needs of Private Equity professionals. Our Corporate Venturing solution helps your team to track incoming deals and due diligence, catalog investments and consolidate your portfolio for Treasury.
Stop by our booth to learn more about Relevant EquityWorks. After the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium schedule a convenient Internet Demo for your CV team and find out more about about Relevant’s corporate venturing solutions Corporate Website: www.relevant.us/todays-cv-toolbox
Waste Management, Inc., based in Houston, Texas, is the leading provider of comprehensive waste management services in North America. Through its subsidiaries, the company provides collection, transfer, recycling and resource recovery, and disposal services. It is also a leading developer, operator and owner of landfill gas-to-energy facilities in the United States. The company’s customers include residential, commercial, industrial, and municipal customers throughout North America. To learn more information about Waste Management visit www.wm.com or www.thinkgreen.com.
DLA Piper is a global law firm with 4,200 lawyers in the Americas, Asia Pacific, Europe and the Middle East, positioning us to help companies with their legal needs around the world. We strive to be the leading global business law firm by delivering quality and value to our clients. We achieve this through practical and innovative legal solutions that help our clients succeed. We deliver consistent services across our platform of practices and sectors in all matters we undertake. Our clients range from multinational, Global 1000, and Fortune 500 enterprises to emerging companies developing industry-leading technologies. They include more than half of the Fortune 250 and nearly half of the FTSE 350 or their subsidiaries. We also advise governments and public sector bodies. Corporate Website: https://www.dlapiper.com Corporate Social Media Links: Twitter: @dla_piper LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dla-piper Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/officialdlapiper?ref=br_tf
Bridgelight uses the data people create and access to identify real-world collaboration and investment opportunities. Incorporating cutting edge data analytics and interactive visualisation, it automates the costly manual process of finding the right people and companies to engage with across a sea of data. Bridgelight is a pre-investment startup, but has already generated approaching £100k in revenue. It is operating as a proof-of-concept platform to accelerate collaboration and innovation across UK Rail sector supply chains, and to map capabilities and expertise in UK Science Parks. Currently working with the GCV Symposium, the objective is to accelerate connectivity amongst GCV Symposium delegates, and to explore the potential for CV teams to use the platform to accelerate the generation of investment deal flow.
Innogy Venture Capital is a fund management company specialised in distributed energy solutions. The company focuses on investments in European startup companies that provide solutions and new business models shaping the future energy market. With a final closing size of EUR 115 million, the currently managed "Innogy Renewables Technology Fund I" is a leading early stage investor in this segment in Europe. The fund's sponsors are RWE Innogy and CEE Holding. RWE Innogy pools within the German utility RWE the expertise for construction and operation of renewable energy generation assets. CEE Holding is an investment company of Bankhaus Lampe Group, focusing on renewable energy generation. Corporate Website: Find out more at https://www.innogy-ventures.com
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RVC is a government fund of funds and a development institute of the Russian Federation, one of Russia's key tools in building its own national innovation system. RVC was established by Russian Government on June 7, 2006 (Order No. 838-r). Its mission is to encourage Russia’s own VC industry and boost capital of VC funds. RVC’s role is that of a government fund of venture capital funds channeling public incentives to venture capital and financial support to the hi-tech sector, and of a Russian VC industry development institution.
SETsquared is a long-standing partnership between the universities of Bath, Bristol, Exeter, Southampton and Surrey which specialises in growing high-tech start-ups through its incubation programme and other business acceleration services. SETsquared provides mentoring, access to investors and corporate innovators and a wide range of industry experts through its network and training programmes. Its business incubation programme is ranked by the University Business Incubator Index as the best in Europe and second in the world and over the last decade it has helped over 1,000 high-tech start-ups to develop and raise more than a £1bn of investment. Independent research carried out by Warwick Economics estimates the economic impact of SETsquared member companies to be £3.8bn over this period, with the creation of 9,000 jobs and that these companies will go on to deliver a further £7.3bn of impact to the UK economy in the decade ahead. Corporate Website: Find out more at https://www.setsquared.co.uk
Helsinki Business Hub helps you to access deal-flow from Finland. We focus on connecting you with growth companies relevant to your business. Let's talk more! Contact Mr. Juho Pirinen | +358 50 585 7782 | juho.pirinen@helsinkibusinesshub.fi. Our services are free of charge. Corporate Website: http://www.helsinkibusinesshub.fi/
Startupbootcamp is the global family of industry focussed startup accelerators with 10 programs located in Amsterdam, Barcelona, London, Berlin, Eindhoven, Copenhagen,Singapore and Istanbul and a mentor and alumni network in more than 30 countries. Our programs each specialise in a different industry to provide our startups with the most relevant and tailored curriculum in the world. Each Startupbootcamp accelerator program selects 10 startups from more than 500 global applicants to receive €15,000 for living expenses, free co-working space and over €450,000 worth of partner deals. Startupbootcamp's secret is our global pool of over 750 volunteer mentors who provide priceless value through coaching and connections to customers, partners and investors. Startupbootcamp also partners with leading brands such as Amazon Web Services, Google, Samsung and PayPal. 85% of the Startupbootcamp alumni teams are still active and over 70% have gone on to raise additional funding from many of the worlds leading VCs and angels. Corporate Website: http://www.startupbootcamp.orgi/