PwC’s corporate venturing podcast

How can corporates and entrepreneurs build ventures together? In this episode, Elise Carton (PwC) explores the benefits and challenges of this exciting form of corporate venturing.
Her guests Sam Heymans (CEO and founder of Lizy) and Michaël Grandfils (Managing Director of Lab Box, d'Ieteren's start-up studio) share their experiences on corporate start-up studios, having a corporate on board from the beginning, and building Lizy hand in hand.


Participants:
Sam Heymans, CEO and founder of Lizy

Michaël Grandfils, Managing Director of Lab Box

What are start-up studios or venture builders? In this episode, Elise Carton (PwC) takes a deeper dive into this subject, and how start-up studios play a role in corporate venturing. Her guests Yasmin Vantuykom (Efluenz) and Raphael Halberthal (Startup Factory) share their success stories and elaborate on the way forward of start-up studios, innovation and entrepreneurship.

During this episode, Elise Carton and Philipp Pilat (PwC), together with Heraeus’ Florian Theisen (Venture Catalyst) and Mario Hehle (Head of Innovation and Senior Vice President), consider all aspects of open innovation strategies and accelerator programmes.

Florian and Mario explain the benefits of open innovation and how they lead innovation at Heraeus through a transformation, including the launch of fiftyOne, Heraeus’ new innovation centre in Hanau.

They also share insights on how they made their Accelerator programme such a success.

During this episode, Elise Carton (PwC), Aelbrecht Van Damme (The Harbour), Michiel Van Meervenne (Kriket) and Jeroen Dils (Kwantz) discuss the perspective of start-ups in having a corporate investor on board. What are the priorities for corporates and corporate investors right now? What are the benefits of raising capital with a corporate? They also touch upon the different types of corporate investors and Michiel and Jeroen share some insights and lessons learned before, during and post-deal.

What’s corporate venturing all about? In this first episode, Lieven Adams and Elise Carton (PwC) discuss the definition and principles of corporate venturing with fellow experts Vincent Molly and Andries Reymer. How can corporates and start-ups collaborate? What are the benefits of doing so? What makes these collaborations successful?