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Japanese Corporate Innovation in Silicon Valley – 2020 Report

By |2025-06-10T15:02:37+02:00May 21st, 2020|Innovation Outposts, Main publications, Research|

While reviewing the presence of corporate innovation outposts of the largest companies in the world in Silicon Valley in 2019, two major insights became clear: • Japan is the country that has by far the largest presence of corporations in the Bay Area, • Japan is the country where a significant chunk of capital deployed in Silicon Valley is originated. Understanding better the dynamics of these 2 trends has been the main driving force for this report.

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Marco Marinucci (MtB) interviews Marco Marinucci (Hella) | Mind the Chat

By |2020-04-23T10:00:32+02:00April 15th, 2020|Corporates, General, Investors, Mind the Chat, Silicon Valley|

In this Mind the Chat, MtB CEO Marco Marinucci meets his homonym leading Hella Ventures, the CVC arm of Hella, the 100+ yrs old German company made famous by its iconic lights for sport cars, now leader in lidar and radar technology (key components in self driving cars) among other things.

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Present and Future of Accelerators | Mind the Chat with Aaron Blumenthal (500 Startups)

By |2020-04-23T10:01:59+02:00April 10th, 2020|Corporates, General, Investors, Mind the Chat, Silicon Valley, Startups|

We spend some time with another undiscussed trend-setter among seed accelerators: 500 Startups has become one of the most prolific seed investors in the world (~2500 investments) with a strong international footprint. In this Mind the Chat, Marco Marinucci meets its Director of Global Portfolio Services, Aaron Blumenthal.

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Why Science and Spirituality will merge | Mind the Chat with Federico Faggin

By |2020-04-23T10:03:46+02:00March 26th, 2020|General, Investors, Mind the Chat, Policy Makers, Silicon Valley|

In this Mind the Chat, Marco Marinucci meets Federico Faggin. Not an ordinary Silicon Valley entrepreneur, nor an ordinary physicist nor "ordinary inventor" - his material achievements in physics, electronics and, generally speaking, our lives (just think microprocessor and touchscreen) are countless - but even in the range of extra-ordinary, he might be off the chart. In this chat, they focus on his current field of focus: study the nature of consciousness, as a direct consequence of an extra-corporeal experience experience he had in 1989.

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