Marco Marinucci chats with Rishi Roongta, Founder, Bain Innovation Exchange (BIE), Marco Di Luca, Baincubator Global General Manager at Bain & Company and Laure Ceddaha, Director, Entrepreneur in Residence, Bain & Company.
Rishi holds more than 10 years of experience across venture capital (VC), startups and strategy consulting. He is a seasoned seed, A and B round investor with a broad network spanning San Francisco, Los Angeles and Chicago. As founder of the Bain Innovation Exchange (BIE), Rishi supports clients on building both their innovation and ecosystem capabilities. BIE has built a global ecosystem of startups, venture capitalists, major tech players and innovation leaders to help drive innovation to BIE’s clients. Rishi has also played a critical role in delivering thought leadership and support to the launches of Bain’s newest offerings, including ADAPT, VCaaS and Bain Media Lab, where he was responsible for developing and driving the relationship with Hive.AI and Bain.
Marco Di Luca has a solid experience in Open Innovation models, and Corporate Venture Capital. Former BGC Principal in Italy, he leads the Baincubator at Bain & Company.
Laure Ceddaha is the Co-founder of Aura.ceo, DIrector & EIR Baincubator. Aura.ceo provides automated talent & operating model diligence for today’s Competitive Intelligence teams.
They talk about Innovation @Bain, Bain Innovation Exchange, services for corporate clients (ie CVC as-a-service) and Baincubator (intrapreneurship, structure and processes) finally reporting the “Aura” case study.
**This Mind the Chat is part of the ‘Innovation Executive Views’ series of the 2020 Digital Scaleup Summit in Silicon Valley**