Fault Lines #20 - Nicolas Sauvage - How TDK Ventures Reinvented Corporate VC
In this episode of Fault Lines, Augustin Sayer sits down with Nicolas Sauvage, founder and President of TDK Ventures, to unpack how he built a corporate venture capital fund designed to avoid the traditional pitfalls of CVC. Nicolas shares the unlikely story behind its creation—from discovering corporate venture capital at Stanford and hearing “no” repeatedly inside TDK, to eventually convincing the company’s leadership to launch the fund in 2019.
The conversation explores what makes TDK Ventures different: treating entrepreneurs as customers, building investment convictions from first…
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