This post provides examples of how various corporate venture capital (CVC) funds have built brands dependent on investment strategy and strengths. Samantha Huang, Principal at BMW i Ventures, has been a core member of the Counter Club Advisory Board, helping other CVC funds with branding and positioning. This post is…

This post provides an example of how a top tier corporate venture capital (CVC) fund delivers strategic value and what other CVC funds can learn from the machinery they have built. Peter Votkjaer Jorgensen, Partner at Maersk Growth has been a member of the Counter Club for over three years…

Written by Counterpart’s Mikey Kailis. We fortuitously met Nurasyl Serik, the CEO & Founder of Remofirst on a Friday afternoon at one of our Lazy Lunches in San Francisco. We started hosting founder lunches in cities around the US as a way to connect up with a selective audience of…

It is March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is upon us and like almost all our VC peers we decided to go remote. Joe headed back to Japan, Mikey to Australia and Patrick remained in San Francisco. We figured it wouldn’t last long and we would all be back in the…

How can we offer something unique to founders, which offers real edge in a hyper-competitive venture market but still authentic and aligned with our backgrounds? We considered this question in the early days of Counterpart Ventures. Differentiation in VC is mission critical. The landscape is littered with commodity funds. Many…

Written by Patrick Eggen, Founding General Partner, Counterpart Ventures This post is backdated, it was originally published on LinkedIn on April 26 2019 here. Venture math is simple. If you want to win really big in venture, you need to be right when everyone else is wrong. Typically, the best…

Over the past year, we have made a number of investments and been quietly working away to launch a sustainable venture franchise which will grow carefully, deliberately and purposefully. While we have several exciting portfolio announcements to share in the near future, we thought it was time to graduate from…

At the beginning of 2018, it felt like the IoT industry was on the cusp of a technology revolution. Autonomous driving was a huge topic of…

Why We Built Sense360 & Our Approach To Privacy Amazon versus the world. In 2009, I joined Amazon as a Product Manager. It was obvious almost 10 years ago that Amazon was going to annihilate every business in its path. They understood technology, they had a brilliant strategist leading them…