A short presentation I did in December 2013 about corporate venture capital and the exciting developments in the Quantified Self and Wearables markets.

1. Let’s Chat:
Corporate Venture Capital
& Quantified Self
!
Optus-Innov8 Seed
Alfred Lo
Lead Principal
@apglo

2. Corporate
Venture Capital
What is CVC and why do
corporates do it?
Quantified Self
Delve into the Quantified
Self space and its
connection to telcos

3. (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seed_funding)

4. The Problem
!
With focus on a narrow range
of projects, corporates lack a
way to sniff out competitive
threats beyond their main
areas of expertise.

5. The Argument
!
Investing in external startups
can help a company see,
understand, and respond rapidly
to changes in the business
landscape.

7. VENTURE
CAPITAL
CORPORATE
VENTURE
CAPITAL
Financial Returns
Investment from External Partners
Pre-determined Investment Horizons
Financial + Strategic Returns
Investment from Parent Company
Flexible Investment Horizons

16. Infolust
[in-fo-lust] -noun

17. Global data traffic has increased
more than fourfold in the past 5
years, and will increase threefold
over the next 5
Cisco, May 2013

18. INFO-SENSE
making information delivery so seamless and useful that
consumers will feel as though they’ve developed a sixth
sense: info-sense

19. Number of Deals

20. Deal Size

21. Optus-Innov8 Seed is a collaboration between Optus and
SingTel Innov8 bringing together funding and resources for
Australian tech startups