Inside CVC by u-path

About Inside CVC by u-path

Welcome to Inside CVC —Inside CVC by U-Path is the podcast where corporate venture capital meets strategy, leadership, and systemic change. Hosted by Philipp Willigmann and Steve Schmith, the show brings senior voices from across corporate venture, startups, investment, academia, and policy to the table. Each episode goes beyond buzzwords to explore how capital, technology, and leadership shape the future of business and society. From AI and robotics to geopolitics, board governance, and inclusive innovation, Inside CVC is designed for executives and policymakers who want to understand not just what’s happening — but what to do about it.

Publisher

u-path

Category

business · science · technology

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Apr 2025

Latest episode

11 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

61 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   11 Oct 2026

   Inside CVC: Part 2 with Marten Rauschenberg on AI, Capital, and What Comes Next

   Send us Fan Mail This is part two of our conversation with Marten Rauschenberg, Managing Director of the Asia Berlin Forum, who leads the organization's annual Summit connecting Berlin's startup ecosystem to Asia's. If you haven't heard part one, start there for his path from paramedic to founder of five companies in Shanghai, and what AsiaBerlin does today. In this half, Marten makes the case that the real risk in AI isn't the technology itself, it's how much of the capital and compute behin...

2. 

   4 Oct 2026

   Inside CVC: Part 1 with Marten Rauschenberg on Building Bridges Between Berlin and Asia

   Send us Fan Mail Marten Rauschenberg is Managing Director of the Asia Berlin Forum, the Berlin Senate-backed project connecting the city's startup ecosystem to Asia's, and leads the annual AsiaBerlin Summit each November. Before that, he built and sold five companies in Shanghai, after starting out as a paramedic and a fashion photographer who talked his way into Chinese advertising agencies by shooting cars instead of models. In part one of this two-part conversation, Marten traces tha...

3. 

   27 Sept 2026

   Inside CVC: Rupprecht Podszun on Antitrust, Regulation, and Europe's Innovation Mindset

   Send us Fan Mail Rupprecht Podszun holds the chair in German and European competition law at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, sits on Germany's Monopolies Commission, and spent two years inside the Bundeskartellamt, the federal competition authority. He joins Philipp and Steve to make the case that two decades of antitrust enforcement never actually curbed Big Tech's power, and that Europe's Digital Markets Act is the regulatory answer to that failure, imperfect but underway. He explains...

Who has been a guest on Inside CVC by u-path

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• Christian Schumacher
• Jen Randle
• Kristin Slanina
• Yaron Flint
• Philipp Mueller

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Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

7 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

11 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 41 / 100

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Quality

69

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

32

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