CVC Bridges @ The Drop 2026 🚀✨
​Co-Host Partners: Pale Blue Dot, Deepsense, RosholmDell Advokatbyrå AB
​Community Partners: Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Southern Sweden, Hello Tomorrow
​Why Bridges Matters ❤️
​In climate & deeptech, founders operate on long-term cycles and make decisions that compound over decades. VCs and CVCs must evolve into collaborative stewards that help de-risk the long-term growth of these startups.
​We aim to listen, dissect and build bridges to unlock strategic capital and partnerships that founders need, with the long game in mind.
​Agenda
​Introduction of Agenda and Partners (15 min):
​Welcome from Chamber of Commerce, South Sweden (Anna Normann + Johan Eklund)
​Inspration from Heidi Lindvall, Pale blue dot
​Fireside Panel (15 min):
​The sovereign capital stack: Funding European deep tech to bankability.
​We will explore how to create better incentive alignment between VCs, corporate VCs, and family offices to steward founders over the long term.
​Where is EU deeptech stands today and where CVCs and VCs can collaborate more effectively
​Gaps in the partnership structures reflected in VC/CVC term sheets and board advisory
​Realstories of founder-first governance and long-term capital engagement
​Speakers:
​Danijel Višević - GP, World Fund VC
​Iris ten Have - Principal, Visionaries VC
​Ethan Sohn - Principal, Toyota Ventures CVC
​Julien Fredonie - Head of Partnerships/Investor, Honda Xcelerator Ventures CVC
​Open Ripples (30 min):
​Securing access to the future of compute and semicon supplychain (Bailey Morrow, HSBC Innovation + Daniel I-Fan Wu, Hyundai Cradle CVC)
​Robots become reliable through operation, not demonstration (Isabel Zhang, HCVC + Laura Coppen, H&M Ventures CVC)
​Storage earns like infrastructure, but is funded like software (Elena Ballesteros, Voyager Ventures + Celeste Galvani, A2A CVC)
​Removing the bottlenecks with automating industry & Infra (Philipp Buddemeier, Marvelous VC + Finn Aretz, Deepsense)
​Reciprocity Circle (15 min):
​One idea and one way to help someone in the room: what partnerships do you need to better steward your founders? Join our community!
​Networking (90 mins):
​Open networking with mocktails and snacks from the local regions of Malmö.
​About our Partners
​Pale blue dot is a Malmö-based climate fund has backed early-stage founders across Europe since 2020 and now invests out of a €93M second fund, making it a fitting partner for a conversation about building the capital stack deep tech founders actually need.
​Deepsense
​Deepsense is an expert-led due diligence firm supporting investors and corporates with market mapping, diligence and value creation, powered by the world’s largest science-tech advisor network.
​RosholmDell
​RosholmDell is a Swedish full-service business law firm with an AI-native approach, focused on useful legal services and providing practical and business-oriented advice. They advise a broad range of companies, from startups and scaleups to large international groups, as well as venture capital funds and family offices covering business law, including corporate and M&A (FDI), commercial, capital markets, IP/tech, GDPR, real estate, employment and dispute resolution.
​Please note: This is the official side event is part of The Drop in Malmö but is independently organized and run.
​Being accepted to host or attend a side event does not guarantee a ticket to The Drop's main event on September 16th. If you'd like to attend the main event, please apply for a ticket here.