Corporate venture capital is a growing source of startup funding with 75 of the Fortune 100 actively participating in the entrepreneurial ecosystem. Listen in on an informative session on the ins-and-outs of corporate venture capital with GE Ventures.
This session will cover:
- The key differences between Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) and traditional VCs
- Pathways that an entrepreneur can work with CVCs such as GE Ventures
- How to evaluate whether pursuing CVC investment is the right fit for your business
- How to attract CVC investment
Jessica Straus
At GE Ventures as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Jessica helps strengthen and expand its inclusion efforts, expands the GE Ventures’ ecosystem by identifying the spectrum of VCs, accelerators, universities and others who can act as key partners, and focuses on emergent public policies relevant to the GE Ventures portfolio.
Raghu Madabushi
Raghu Madabushi is a Director at GE Ventures’ New Business Creation team working on early stage investment opportunities in the broader IT and related services space. He comes from the Linux Foundation where he was a Senior Director managing a large portfolio of collaborative open-source technology projects spanning a wide variety of areas including, cloud, networking, security, compute infrastructure, automotive, digital commerce, and IoT.
