Counterpart Ventures

As part of the new multi-day Counter V format, Shell Ventures is hosting a climate tech-focused happy hour on September 25th. With 400 investors arriving in SF from all over the world for the biggest dedicated gathering of corporate VCs, we thought this would provide an excellent opportunity to bring climate tech-focused investors and founders together for a social event.  Thank you to Roman Kiwakyou and Vikas Gupta of Shell Ventures for stepping up to the Counter and hosting. If you are a climate tech-focused CVC or founder, you can request to join the event: https://lu.ma/knbddi0q (pending approval) Corporate investors, head to the events section on counterclub.vc to register for the main day on Sept 26th! #CounterClub #CorporateVenture #CVC #ClimateTech Patrick Eggen, Joe Saijo, Mikey Kailis, Tanvi Narain, Abbie Wolf

We're thrilled to welcome Trae Stephens to Counter V on September 26th in San Francisco to bring his perspective on the merits and validity of corporate VC from a traditional VC lens. Trae is a Partner at Founders Fund, focusing on startups operating in the government space. He is also Co-founder and Executive Chairman of Anduril Industries (valued at $10 billion), a defense technology company focused on autonomous systems, and Co-founder of Sol, a next generation wearable e-reader. Previously, Trae was an early employee at Palantir Technologies, where he led teams focused on growth in the intelligence/defense space. CVCs can register now for Sept 26th at counterclub.vc or with this easy link (pending approval): https://lu.ma/g56w8x2g. #CounterClub #CVC #CorporateVenture Mikey Kailis, Tanvi Narain, Patrick Eggen, Abbie Wolf, Joe Saijo

Our team has 20 years of combined CVC experience. We are not running off borrowed knowledge, we actually lived it. This true lived experience enables us to tap into our network and bring REAL talk forward about both the challenges and opportunities of corporate ventures. Looking back at Mikey Kailis' candid conversation at Counter IV with Wesley Chan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner at FPV Ventures. He talked through his early days at Google where Google Ventures started out as a side job and experiment. It's happening again this year on September 26th in San Francisco. Corporate investors, check out this year's speaker list and register for Counter V on counterclub.vc or with this easy link (pending approval): https://lu.ma/g56w8x2g Tanvi Narain, Patrick Eggen, Abbie Wolf #CounterClub #CVC #CorporateVenture 

Over the next few weeks, we'll highlight the events around Counter V, the biggest dedicated gathering of corporate VCs. First up the Fintech Happy Hour at SVB's Experience Center on September 25th with SVB, Remofirst and Mouro Capital. This social event will bring fintech-focused investors and builders together amongst the 400 investors we expect on the main day. We’ve added these industry-focused events to help investors find their peers. SVB has been an incredible Counter Club annual partner over the years check out his photo of a Counter IV happy hour at their experience center last year. Charlie Walker, Mark Gallagher Remofirst is creating technologies to connect employees and businesses worldwide as an all-in-one Employer of Record. Nurasyl Serik, David Hughson, Angelica Krauss Mouro Capital backs ambitious entrepreneurs and start-ups shaping the future of financial services. Christopher Gottschalk, Manuel Silva Martinez If you are a fintech-focused CVC or founder, you can request to join the event: https://lnkd.in/g2cWCBdP Corporate investors, head to the events section on counterclub.vc to register for the main day on Sept 26th!

"Just as software ate the world, we believe AI is now eating software," said Andrew Ferguson when announcing Databricks Ventures' Second Fund in May 2024. Andrew will be the central corporate voice of our AI panel on September 26th at Counter V. Andrew brings 15 years of experience and a track record at pre-IPO (New Relic) and public companies (eBay). Since Databricks founding in 2021, they have backed 25 companies—in 2023 they closed an investment every month, on average.    Andrew and his team have made a series of notable investments into different sectors of the landscape — from open-source LLM development (Mistral AI) to companies that make use of multiple models (Perplexity) to AI-powered data quality monitoring (Anomalo). All leverage the power of AI to deliver superior customer experiences.   Corporate investors, check out the full speaker list and register for Sept 26th on counterclub.vc If you do not have a Counter Club account and are an active investor at a corporate VC fund, you can sign up here (pending approval): https://lu.ma/g56w8x2g Patrick Eggen, Mikey Kailis, Tanvi Narain, Joe Saijo, Abbie Wolf   #CounterClub #CVC #CorporateVenture

CVC's Biggest Event of the Year, Counter V, is back on September 26th in San Francisco! We're expanding beyond our main day to a three-day extravaganza with industry-focused and social events from Sept 25-27th. We're expecting 400 Corporate VCs and investors to convene from around the globe. While this has grown well beyond the humble gathering of corporate investors in 2018 for our first Counter, we're staying true to our roots: (1) CURATED content: Invite-only conference for corporate investors (2) REAL talk: no party line. Talk about both the challenges and opportunities.  (3) FRESH approach: led by prior CVC leaders. We are not running off borrowed knowledge, we actually lived it with 20 years of combined CVC experience Patrick Eggen, Joe Saijo. Login to your Counter Club Account (counterclub.vc) and head to the events section to RSVP. If you do not have a Counter Club account and are an active investor at a corporate VC fund, you can sign up here (pending approval): https://lu.ma/g56w8x2g Thank you to our annual partners for helping make this possible: SVB, DLA Piper, PitchBook, Aduro Advisors Shoutout to the CVCs & other friends stepping up to the Counter and hosting side events: WVV Capital, Shell Ventures, Mouro Capital Remofirst, InsurTech NY, Convivialité Ventures 🙌 ✨ Mikey Kailis, Tanvi Narain, Abbie Wolf

We just announced our first batch of speakers joining us at Counter V on September 26th in San Francisco. In the countdown to CVC's biggest event of the year, we'll be highlighting the prominent institutional and corporate investors taking the stage.    First up, Promod Haque, who has had a prolific career with Norwest Venture Partners. In his more than 25 years of VC experience, Haque has invested in more than 70 companies that have produced more than $40 billion in exit values. Some of his most notable deals include Apigee (acquired by Google in 2016), Palerra (acquired by Oracle in 2016) and cybersecurity company FireEye (Nasdaq: FEYE).    Promod will be joined on stage by Nagraj Kashyap, Co-Founder and General Partner of Touring Capital. Nagraj previously founded and served as Global Head at M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund), was a founding partner and Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures, and most recently a Managing Partner at SoftBank Vision Fund. Nagraj’s notable investments include Zoom, Outreach, Livongo, Kahoot!, Waze, Fitbit, Airvana, Loggi, and Innovaccer.   Corporate investors, head to the events page on counterclub.vc to register for Counter V and see more information about the multi-day event on September 25-27th.    #CounterClub #CVC #CorporateVenture Mikey Kailis, Patrick Eggen, Tanvi Narain, Joe Saijo, Abbie Wolf

Looking back at our discussion in London dissecting the nature of a VC's relationship with CVCs. We dug into the tradeoff of speed and strategic value and the implications of a CVC joining a round. Thank you to the corporate voices who joined the table, Erik Johansson of Volvo Group Venture Capital and Anish Patel of Yamaha Motor Ventures. Tosin Agbabiaka of Octopus Ventures and Daniela Raffel Torrebiarte of Dawn Capital brought the institutional perspective. Dawn Capital was kind enough to host our event at their office. Richard Bull of DLA Piper joined us as a moderator. If you are a corporate investor, log into counterclub.vc to access all our event summaries and register for Counter V on Sept 26th! #CounterClub #CorporateVenture #CVC

Congratulations to Soulside CEO and Co-Founder Surabhi Bhandari for getting accepted into the prestigious 2024 UCSF Rosenman Innovators cohort!

The other week in London, we dug into what a strategic and financial orientation mandate means, particularly when it comes to buy-in from the mothership over extended time horizons. Thank you to our speakers: Jon Koplin who leads strategic investments in the EMEA for Cisco Investments and Megumi Ikeda who leads Hearst Ventures in Europe. Peter Votkjaer Jorgensen, former partner of Maersk Growth, moderated the discussion.    All CVCs onboarded into the Counter Club are asked to rate themselves on our 10-point strategic to financial scale. Check out this summary article for more bites and context from our State of CVC Report.   Corporate Investors can find more resources and register for Counter V on September 26th at https://counterclub.vc/   #CounterClub #CVC #CorporateVenture