#53: Joachim Vandaele - Founding Partner at Wright Partners - Building Corporate Ventures at Scale
Topics:How Venture Capital has strayed from its roots and what to do about it. Investing human capital and what that sort of investment would look like in practice. How to build new ventures for corporates. What true market validation looks like. Three major misconceptions around entrepreneurship. Joachim Vandaele is the Founding Partner of Wright Partners, a firm building ventures for and with corporates. He also serves as a Managing Partner at Zephyr Ventures, a fund acting as an operating partner for startups and scale-ups at the verge of taking off. He started his career as a risk manager but eventually got tired of constantly thinking of everything that could go wrong. He went on to join Finalyse, a boutique consulting firm, as a Partner. He later took on the role as CEO for Trusted Family, a company providing technology and advisory solutions to HNW family businesses and their investment offices; and the headed Found8, Singapore’s largest community of entrepreneurs and innovation leaders. He is an EiR, lecturer, and director for the startup bootcamp at INSEAD and today, he is focused on corporate venture building with Wright Partners.Links:Couples that Work: https://amzn.to/38gjKbNThe Art of Possibility: https://amzn.to/38ePrSWDeep Work: https://amzn.to/2LOGAzNLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joachimvandaele/?originalSubdomain=sgEmail: joachim@wright.partners