Counter Club London CVC Summit 2025: Co-hosted with FT Ventures
cWe're thrilled to be headed back over the pond for our second annual summit. We will discuss recent contextual challenges CVCs are facing, the latest trends in CVC and insights from the US CVC sector. Thank you to our friends at FT Ventures (Financial Times) for hosting.
More program and speaker announcements to come.
Event Program
10:00-10:30: Arrive, register, networking & coffee
10:30-10:45: Welcome from Counterpart Ventures, FT Ventures and London & Partners
10:45-11:15: Panel: Alex Calinikos (FT Ventures), Manuel Lopo De Carvalho (DMG Ventures) and Gareth Burns (bp Ventures), moderated by Tom Nugent (Sifted)
11:15-12:00: Fireside chat: Joerg Landsch (Deutsche Bank) and Mark Gallagher (SVB)
12:00-1:00: Lunch
1:00-1:45: Fireside chat: Muriel Atias (L’Oreal BOLD Ventures) and Jeff Baglio (DLA Piper)
1:45-2:30: Panel: Mike Smeed (InMotion Ventures), Illai Gescheit (fmr Siemens Energy Ventures), moderated by Peter Evans (Fieldhouse Associates PR)
2:30-3:00: Presentation: Gerry Demopoulos (Delta Executive Search)
3:00-3:30: Presentation: Nick Laszlo (Jefferies)
3:30-5:00: Founders arrive for Networking with CVCs
5:00: Event Concludes
Speakers:
Muriel Atias, Chief Investment Officer, L'Oreal BOLD Ventures
Joerg Landsch, Head Central, Corporate Venture Capital Deutsche Bank
Nick Laszlo, Senior Vice President, Jefferies
Gareth Burns, Vice President, bp Ventures
Manuel Lopo De Carvalho, Co-Founder and Managing Partner, dmg Ventures
Mike Smeed, Managing Director, InMotion Ventures
Alexandra Calinikos, Corporate Development and Strategy Director, Financial Times Group & FT Ventures
Oliver Fitz-Gibbon, Platform, InMotion Ventures
Gerry Demopoulos, Founding Director, Delta Executive Search
Janet Coyle, Managing Director, Grow London, London & Partners
Ticket Type
While the all-day event is geared towards active corporate investors, we're opening the late afternoon portion up to founders and other friends.
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More Background on Counterpart Ventures and Counter Club:
We are an SF and LA-based VC fund investing in B2B SaaS startups at Seed & Series A. We help build companies by providing meaningful access to real customers and strategic partnerships via our corporate venture capital community called the Counter Club. We are able to create this community as our founding General Partners bring 20+ years of CVC experience to Counterpart Ventures.
The Counter Club Community represents the most active and engaged network of CVCs among any traditional VC firm with over 750+ corporate VCs activated from all around the world. If you are corporate investor, we request that you create an account (https://counterclub.vc/signup) to access all events, content, and networking opportunities with others in the ecosystem.
Thank you to our partners DLA Piper and Silicon Valley Bank, who have helped this event come to life.