Traditional players such as health and insurance companies, media corporations, and tech giants are some of the largest entities overseeing massive pools of capital. Within those large traditional entities, you find corporate venture capital groups that are blueprinting investment strategies for their respective multi-billion-dollar portfolios. In this list, we highlight some of the most active pioneers in venture capital investments that are funding the next-generation of technology and innovation. Presenting Trusted Insight's 2020 Top 30 Corporate Venture Capital Investors:
2020
Top 30 Corporate Venture Capital Investors
David Krane is the chief executive officer and managing partner at Google Ventures, where he leads the fund’s global operations and invests in a wide range of technology companies including Uber, Nest, CircleUp, and Urban Engines. David’s Google career began nearly 19 years ago, as director of global communications and public affairs. In this role, David oversaw the company’s strategic communications programs worldwide and worked as a member of the senior leadership team to grow Google from a small startup to a multi-billion dollar global enterprise. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in journalism from Indiana University Bloomington.
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Kevin Jacques is the vice president and global head of Visa Ventures. He is also an advisor at 71lbs, an online service providing free, fast, and automatic parcel shipping audits and refunds. Previously, he led the corporate development & investment team at Intuit. Prior to that, he was a partner at Sevin Rosen Funds and Palomar Ventures. Kevin holds an MBA from Wharton and a B.S. in industrial engineering from Stanford University.
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Fang Yuan is a vice president at Baidu Ventures, where she focuses on early-stage enterprise-facing AI & robotics investments, pre-seed through Series B. She is a career AI specialist having worked with Google, IBM, and Alchemist Accelerator. She began her career at Morgan Stanley and was one of the earliest hires at Stripe. Yuan has a bachelor's degree in social studies from Harvard University where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.
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Mark Sherman joined Telstra Ventures as a managing director in 2012. Previously, he was a general partner at Hidden Lion Partners, an emerging growth equity firm focused on technology-enabled services. Previously, he was a general partner at Battery Ventures where he led the firm’s enterprise IT and India investment practices with investments in Coupa, Mformation, Neoteris, and Tejas. Previously, he was a managing director at Robertson Stephens & Company, where he ran its software investment banking practice working with companies such as BEA, HNC, Informatica, JD Edwards, Quest, and Siebel. Mark received his MBA from Harvard Business School and B.S. in economics from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Harshul Sanghi is a veteran venture capitalist with over 25 years of operating experience and a proven track record in delivering financial returns and strategic value. Harshul has a keen sense for the disruption of traditional industries by digital platforms – media, telco, commerce and financial services. He is the Founder & Managing Partner of American Express Ventures, overseeing global investment activity across American Express. Harshul has led investments in and is involved with the boards of Abra, Bill.com, Boxed, Freebird, If Only, Instacart, Next Insurance, Retail Next, Simplee, Stripe, Tradeshift and Turo. Harshul has a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the University of Oregon and an MBA from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Switzerland.
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Urs Cete is the managing partner of Bertelsmann Digital Media Investments (BDMI). He joined from Bertelsmann’s Corporate Controlling and Strategy group where he was “chief of staff” to the CEO and worked on strategic projects for all of the media company’s divisions. Urs has led investments in CrowdTwist (acquired by Oracle), Mojiva (acquired by Pubmatic), Skimlinks, StyleHaul (acquired by RTL), Zergnet, Wibbitz, Boostr and Wondery. Urs is actively looking for new investments in media and fintech with a focus on AI/ML, podcasting and payment solutions. Urs was named a 2014 Power Player in Digital Media by AlwaysOn and was on the Global Corporate Venturing Powerlist in 2012, 2013 and 2014.
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Quinn Li is the senior vice president at Qualcomm and Global Head of Qualcomm Ventures. In his current role, Quinn oversees Qualcomm’s $1B venture portfolio of 150+ companies across seven regions. Quinn and his global team invest in key areas such as 5G, AI, Automotive, IoT and Networking to help expand Qualcomm’s ecosystem and customers. Prior to his time at Qualcomm Ventures Quinn was a Board Observer for a variety of companies such as Zoom, Cohesity, Innovium and more. Quinn holds an MBA from Cornell Johnson Graduate School of Management University.
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Matt Carbonara is a managing director at Citi Ventures and works out of the Palo Alto office. Matt strives to create win-win scenarios that provide customer engagement and product feedback for high-potential startups while motivating innovation and business transformation for both Citi and its clients. Prior to Citi Ventures, Matt was at Cisco where he led investments and acquisitions in the areas of enterprise networking, collaboration, and IoT as well as in the country of Israel. He also has investment experience from Comcast Ventures and TeleSoft Partners. Prior to becoming a venture capitalist, Matt was employee 10 at Terayon Communication Systems, a Sequoia and Lightspeed-backed startup that went public, where he initially architected and designed application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) before moving into product marketing and product management. Matt received his B.S. summa cum laude and M.S. in electrical engineering from Ohio State University.
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David Hayes is the chief investment officer and managing director of the Americas for BP Ventures. David brings 17 years’ experience in finance, including 10 years in venture capital investing, specializing in transaction structuring. He sits on the boards of Xpansiv CBL Holding Group (XCHG), Lightning Systems, Fulcrum Bioenergy, Calysta and Mendel Biotechnology. David holds a B.A. in accounting and management control from Sheffield Hallam University. He is a Fellow of the Association of Certified Chartered Accountants (FCCA).
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Raman Khanna is managing director of Dell Technologies Capital, where he leads strategic investments in support of VMware and Dell-EMC’s Networking Group. Raman’s responsibilities include sourcing, leading and managing investments in multi-cloud infrastructure, Software Defined Infrastructure, Security, DevOps, and Management & Orchestration. Prior to joining EMC Ventures (now Dell Technologies Capital) in 2013, Raman spent 16 years at Stanford University IT in various roles including the Chief Information Officer responsible for IT infrastructure as well as both Academic and Business Systems for the University. During that time he served on CIO Advisory Boards of many leading companies including Cisco, Dell and Microsoft. Raman has 20 years of operating experience and 18 years of investment experience in information technology. Raman holds an MBA from Golden Gate University and an MS in computer science from Virginia Tech. He earned his undergraduate degree from Delhi College of Engineering, India, where he studied Electrical and Electronics Engineering.
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Matt Garratt is SVP and managing partner at Salesforce Ventures. Over the last six years has led investments in leading enterprise SaaS companies, including DocuSign, MuleSoft and Twilio. He was initially doing a mix of M&A and investments at Salesforce, where he quickly saw the potential for Salesforce Ventures. Investing in over 280 companies, over a billion dollars, and in 18 countries. They have over 30 portfolio companies in Japan and a few investments in Australia. Garratt holds an MBA/MS in finance and entrepreneurship from the University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
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Muzzammil Zaveri is a partner at Gradient Ventures. Prior to joining Gradient, he was part of the venture team at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (KPCB). While there, he was actively involved with investments in BuddyBuild (acquired by Apple), Incorta, FullStory, UJET, Figma, Zumper and Feather. During his tenure there he helped spearhead their renewed seed-stage investing efforts. Prior to Kleiner, he was part of Tencent’s investment team in Palo Alto, CA focusing primarily on early-stage investments. At Tencent, he worked on investments in companies such as Vurb (acquired by Snapchat), Tile, Satellogic, and Weebly to name a few. He began his career co-founding Proxino, a Y Combinator (S11) backed startup in the JavaScript error detection space. Muzzammil was featured on 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 in Venture Capital. He holds a B.A. in computer science from the University of Virginia.
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Andrew Challis is the head of strategic investments at Barclays. Barclays is a transatlantic consumer and wholesale bank offering products and services across personal, corporate and investment banking, credit cards and wealth management, with a strong presence in our two home markets of the UK and the U.S.
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Mark Goodman is managing director of MassMutual Ventures (MMV). MMV is the venture capital arm of MassMutual, a Fortune 100 insurance and asset management company with approximately $650B AUM. Mark’s investment areas include fintech, cybersecurity and data analytics. Prior to MMV, Mark was the founder of Terawatt Ventures, a venture capital firm focusing on technology innovation in sustainability and materials. He began his career in venture capital in 2004 when he co-founded Brookline Venture Partners. Mark began his career at First Chicago (now part of Chase), where he gained broad experience in corporate finance, capital markets and credit analysis. Mark holds a B.A. in economics and philosophy from Emory University, an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and an M.A. and PhD in philosophy from Boston College. Mark was appointed by President Obama to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council where he served from 2010 to 2016.
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Phil Kirk joined Cisco in 2007 and is currently responsible for all acquisitions and investments related to big Data as well as Cloud software and management. Before joining Cisco, Phil was with the Microsoft Corporate Strategy team. Previously, he was an associate with DTEC Venture Capital, where he sourced and executed early stage investments in the software and networking market. Earlier, he spent time as a strategy consultant, focusing on clients in the internet and e-commerce space. Phil earned his MBA degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and an AB degree with honors in economics from the University of Chicago.
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Carl Stjernfeldt
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Carl Stjernfeldt is the Head of Corporate Development, Americas at Shell New Energies. Previously, he was North American Venture Manager at Shell Ventures, Shell's corporate venture capital fund. Prior to that, he was a general partner at Castile Ventures. Carl holds an MBA from MIT Sloan School of Management and an MSc in elektro, computer engineering from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, and an M.S. from Northeastern University.
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Leo de Luna is managing director at M12, Microsoft's Venture Fund, where he leads the U.S. team in the Bay Area and New York to make Series A-C investments in world-changing startups. Leo holds an MBA from the University of Californi, Berkeley and a BBA in business from University of Texas at Austin
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Bill Burkoth is the executive director of WWBD and senior partner at Pfizer Ventures. Since joining Pfizer in early 2004, he has played an instrumental role in making and managing numerous venture capital investments in companies in the healthcare sector. He is also a member of the investment committee of the Investment Fund for Health in Africa (IFHA) and FinHealth Gestão de Recursos S.A. (Rio, Brazil). Prior to joining Pfizer, Bill worked in business development at Galileo Pharmaceuticals and at IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals. Prior to his roles in business development, Bill was an analyst at Bay City Capital. He holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a B.A. in chemistry from Whitman College.
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Zain Gulamali is a venture capital and growth equity investor with 13 years of experience in consumer and enterprise technology investing, M&A, strategy, and business development. He currently manages investments for the Amazon Alexa Fund, Amazon’s venture capital fund investing in artificial intelligence, deeptech, voice technology, robotics, and IoT across consumer, enterprise, healthcare, and other sectors. He has spearheaded the Alexa Fund's focus on AI, enterprise and productivity, robotics, mobility, health and wellness, fintech, and property tech. Zain holds an M.S. in management from Stanford University and a B.S. in computer science and media studies from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Andrew Cleland is the managing director at Comcast Ventures. Andrew has is media venture investor and strategist with twenty years of startup and big media experience. Previously, he was a managing director of investments at Time Warner, Inc., where he sourced, evaluated, and executed venture investments on behalf of Time Warner in early-stage media and technology companies. Andrew holds an MBA from INSEAD and an M.A. in economics from the University of Edinburgh.
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Asish Xavier is a career investment specialist and long time Johnson & Johnson employee. He began working at Johnson & Johnson in 2004, as a senior associate and has climb through the Company ranks since then. He has and currently serves as a board member for a wide array of bioscience companies and began his career in pharma. He received his PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Houston, did his Postdoctoral Fellowship at Johns Hopkins University, has an MBA from Wharton School of Business, and a bachelor's in Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur.
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Saemin Ahn is the managing partner at Rakuten Ventures. He has held this position since the fund’s inception in 2013. Based in Singapore, Saemin invests in diverse verticals such as advertising technology, artificial intelligence and on-demand business around the world. Some of the portfolio investments he manages include Carousell, ViSenze, Pocketmath, Epic!, and Algorithmia.
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Brian Schettler leads the Boeing venture capital team to make disruptive and strategic next-generation companies. Schettler has more than 17 years of experience in aerospace, technology, and defense companies in areas of corporate and business strategy, mergers and acquisitions, business development, and product portfolio management. Schettler holds a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering from Northwestern University and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland.
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Daniel Hullah is a managing director of investing at GE Ventures and joined the organization in 2016. Prior to GE, he held several positions throughout the energy industry, most recently at National Grid as director of ventures. Before National Grid, he served as both VP of marketing and strategy and interim CEO at Solar Universe. Daniel holds a Ph.D. in physical chemistry from the University of Oxford, an MBA with distinction from INSEAD in France, and a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of Oxford. He also completed a year of post-doctoral study at the University of Chicago.
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Sam Brasch leads the program at Kaiser Permanente Ventures as the group’s senior managing director. He returned to KPV in 2016 to lead the corporate venture fund’s activities after serving as a venture partner at New Leaf Venture Partners and as a senior advisor to Health Catalyst. Sam’s health care industry experience spans more than two decades. During his tenure at Kaiser Permanente Ventures from 2011 to 2014, Sam led the group’s investments in iRhythm Technologies, Health Catalyst, Nordic Consulting, and multiple other companies. Sam holds an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. degree from Stanford University.
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Raymond Liao is the vice president and managing director at Samsung NEXT Ventures. Based in Silicon Valley, Raymond looks for early-stage startups with fundamental technology innovations, with special interests in Security/Privacy, Machine Learning, and Enterprise IoT. Previously, he was the founding CTO of Siemens Industrial Communications business in Germany. He joined Siemens TTB in Berkeley to bring external innovations by spin-in, investment and partnership. Some of his success cases led to the market-leading industrial WLAN business for Siemens, and were featured in Siemens Annual Report and Harvard Business Review. In his past life, Raymond was a productive researcher with over 20 academic publications and 10 issued patents. He received a Ph.D. from Columbia University with the Eliahu Jury Award.
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Dan Reed is the managing director of American Family Ventures, the direct venture capital arm of American Family Insurance. American Family Ventures invests in early-stage companies focused on insurance, connectivity, and analytics. Dan has worked as a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group and in various strategic roles at American Family. He has experience as a principal in two startup companies. Additionally, his work history includes hospital administration at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, and a career as a professional baseball player with the Baltimore Orioles. Dan holds an MBA with a concentration in Strategic Management from the University of Chicago and an undergraduate degree from Stanford University.
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Scott Nelson is a venture executive at Chevron Technology Venture, Chevron’s venture capital arm making equity investments to support external technologies that could improve Chevron’s business. Using a world-class venture capital investment model, the team supports entrepreneurs around the globe that are developing pioneering technologies in the areas of exploration and production, information technology, and advanced materials. Prior to his roles as Venture Executive, Scott was the Director of Business Development for Chevron.
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Chris Bartlett is the senior vice president of corporate development and the head of Verizon Ventures. Previously, he was managing director, head of North America Media at Morgan Stanley, where he served for over 14 years. Prior to that, he was an investment banking associate at Bear Stearns & Co. Chris holds an MBA from Columbia University and a BBA from the University of Texas at Austin.
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Scott English is a senior managing director and head of Hearst Ventures, where he pursues strategic investments and acquisitions for Hearst in digital media. Prior to joining Hearst in 1995, he worked for Details magazine at Conde Nast. He has invested in and served as a board director or observer of over 16 companies. Scott holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and a bachelor’s degree from Trinity College.
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