Inside CVC by u-path
Welcome to Inside CVC —Inside CVC by U-Path is the podcast where corporate venture capital meets strategy, leadership, and systemic change. Hosted by Philipp Willigmann and Steve Schmith, the show brings senior voices from across corporate venture, startups, investment, academia, and policy to the table.
Each episode goes beyond buzzwords to explore how capital, technology, and leadership shape the future of business and society. From AI and robotics to geopolitics, board governance, and inclusive innovation, Inside CVC is designed for executives and policymakers who want to understand not just what’s happening — but what to do about it.
Inside CVC by u-path
Latest Episodes
Inside CVC: Ben Cohen on Running Marketing and Venture as One Job
Ben Cohen runs global marketing for the Electronics business at FORVIA HELLA and leads Hella Ventures, its corporate venture arm, a pairing that is still rare in CVC. In this conversation with Steve Schmith and Philipp Willigmann, Cohen ...
Inside CVC: Rebecca Finlay on AI Safety, Agent Oversight, and the Speed of Trust
Rebecca Finlay is CEO of Partnership on AI, the nonprofit that has spent a decade putting technology companies, civil society groups, academics and policymakers around one table. Founded in 2016, six years before ChatGPT, PAI now counts about 1...
Inside CVC: Part 2 with Marten Rauschenberg on AI, Capital, and What Comes Next
This is part two of our conversation with Marten Rauschenberg, Managing Director of the Asia Berlin Forum, who leads the organization's annual Summit connecting Berlin's startup ecosystem to Asia's. If you haven't heard part one, start there fo...
Inside CVC: Part 1 with Marten Rauschenberg on Building Bridges Between Berlin and Asia
Marten Rauschenberg is Managing Director of the Asia Berlin Forum, the Berlin Senate-backed project connecting the city's startup ecosystem to Asia's, and leads the annual AsiaBerlin Summit each November. Before that, he built and sold five com...
Inside CVC: Rupprecht Podszun on Antitrust, Regulation, and Europe's Innovation Mindset
Rupprecht Podszun holds the chair in German and European competition law at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, sits on Germany's Monopolies Commission, and spent two years inside the Bundeskartellamt, the federal competition authority...
