Recorded on July 24, 2026, this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider features Nicolas Sauvage in conversation with Sriram Viswanathan, Founding Managing Partner at Celesta Capital and an early member of Intel Capital.

Sriram shares lessons from Andy Grove, Intel’s ecosystem-building strategy, and the “pizza” framework for strategic investing: capture more of an existing market, expand it, or create a new one. He also explains why superior technology alone rarely wins, why corporate venture capital is entering a golden age, and how the India Deep Tech Alliance aims to build the talent, capital, partnerships, and infrastructure needed for truly lasting innovation.

Filmed at the GCVI 2026 Summit in Monterey, Corporate Venturing Insider #126 features Nicolas Sauvage in conversation with Barbry McGann, co-head of Workday Ventures. Barbry shares how a career in enterprise software product leadership led her from PeopleSoft, Oracle, and Workday into corporate venture capital. She explains how product thinking shapes Workday Ventures’ investment strategy, why the team moved away from seed investing, and what she looks for in product-led founders. The episode also explores AI’s impact on enterprise software, market sensing inside corporations, and how Workday Ventures uses a provocative weekly newsletter to educate executives.

Interviewed March 25th, 2026

Interviewed March 25th, 2026 at the GCV Monterey Summit

In this episode of Corporate Venturing Insider, Nicolas Sauvage speaks with Ana Lopes of IBM Ventures about her journey from astrophysics and MIT tech transfer to startup building, GE Ventures, and IBM Ventures. Ana shares lessons on translating science from lab to market, why founders should start with the problem rather than the technology, and how corporate VCs can provide “capital plus” through customer access, strategic validation, and go-to-market support. They also discuss IBM Ventures’ focus on enterprise AI, hybrid cloud, and quantum computing, plus how CVC teams can bring market signals back to the mothership.