Where CVCs and interested Corporations learn
Starting ,Operating, and Tracking a Profitable, Agile Fund: Balancing LP Mandates and ROI (P2)
Modern methodolgies and principles
FORMATION • BEST PRACTICES • INVESTING
WHEN IS THE EVENT :
Monday, October 27th ,2025 12:30 - 6:00pm PDT
WHERE IS THE EVENT :
3203 Hanover Street Suite 100 Palo Alto CA 94304
A Joint Event by
About Your Facilitators
Top Experts from DLA Piper and former Leadership of CVCs will discuss aspects of the purpose and benefits of forming a CVC, the various legal considerations, and new ways of operational implementation such as visualizing the Investment Thesis, best practices for various Due Diligence task.
Detailed Profile of the facilitators can be found by clicking on the pictures
Richard Bull
Partner, DLA Piper
Mel Wheaton
Partner, DLA Piper
Andrew Maywah
Managing Partner, Pacific Summit Ventures, Instrumental in building TDK Ventures
Axel Tillmann
CEO, Pitch Global CVC Accelerator and former MD of CVC Fund
Special Guests
Experienced CVC with more than 12 years working for Samsung Catalyst, and prior operational roles at SAP and Apple
Freddie Seba is a strategist, public speaker, and educator who specializes in the ethics and governance of Generative AI for institutional leaders. His work bridges the gap between abstract policy and applied implementation, equipping executives, faculty, providers, and innovation teams to adopt AI responsibly and effectively. With a background spanning academia, corporate strategy, and startups, Freddie brings a cross-sector lens to ethical technology leadership. For over eight years, he taught graduate courses in digital health, innovation, and GenAI ethics at USF, where he helped shape early conversations on responsible AI in education and health. Today, he delivers executive workshops, governance toolkits, and keynote presentations to leaders in healthcare, higher education, and mission-driven sectors. He holds an MBA from Yale and a Master’s in International Policy from Stanford and is completing his EdD in Organization & Leadership focused on GenAI ethics in higher education.
Freddie Seba
INTRODUCTION
CVCs are often bound by Corporate Rules
Pitch Global is a the leading provider of a CVC ecosystem We are offering CVCs to have a trusted environment as well as thought leadership, in terms of Formation, Operation and Investment.
We partnered with DLA Piper in order to facilitate a long-term programming that will inspire Corporates that want to create a CVC arm, as well as existing CVCs that want to improve their processes.
Other CVC themed events allow for the interaction of Startups with CVCs in a smaller setting as compared to the interaction less environments found with 1000s of attendees.
Only in Silicon Valley can you find this type of leadership.
- Corporate Investment will exceed $1 Trillion in the next few years, and we want to empower them to be the leaders.
Kaustav Chaudhuri (KC WISDOM)
Founder of Pitch Global
SCHEDULE DETAILS
CVC Masterclass Agenda
As always, the agenda is subject to change and depends on last minute interferences by our attendees, such as urgent board meetings or investment proposals
27th OCT
MONDAY
12:30 PM - 1:15 PM
Registration & Networking
1:15 PM - 1:20 PM
Opening Remarks by DLA Piper and Pitch Global
1:20 PM - 1:50 PM
Attendees introduce themselves, and mention key interests
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Keynote Interview
Q&A style keynote with Jonathan Charles, former Investment Director- Samsung Catalyst funds on “Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Venture Capital Funds"
1:50 PM - 2:10 PM
Keynote Interview
Q&A style keynote with Freddie Seba, former Senior Vice President - BBVA on “Corporate Venture Capital in LATAM"
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM
Q&A Benefits for Corporates to operate a CVC Fund
Andrew Maywah, experienced Venture Capital executive, who co-started TDK Ventures, will be interviewed by Axel Tillmann
2:40 PM - 3:30 PM
The legal aspects to start & operate a CVC Fund
Richard Bull and Mel Wheaton, both partners at DLA Piper will speak about the various options of forming a CVC Fund as well as the aspects of operating a CVC Fund.
3:30 PM - 4:10 PM
New Aspects to approach Investment Thesis and Due Diligence
Axel Tillmann, CEO Pitch Global CVC Accelerator, former Managing Director of an international CVC with $150 AUM, will present a new approach to visualize and standardize investment thesis and application to investment targets. This objective method will be also trackable all the way to the end of the deal. Supporting documents of the DD process will be structured accordingly. He will also speak about best practices for Sales/Opportunity pipeline assessment, Valuation practice, and Management Due Diligence.
4:10 PM - 5:00 PM
Q&A Session - General Discussion - Next Steps
All participants can speak about this experience, can ask additional questions, and voice what they would like to learn more about in the follow meetings.
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For over 10 years, Jonathan Charles (a.k.a. JC) served as an Investment Director at the Samsung Catalyst Fund (SCF). With a focus primarily on frontier and deep tech, JC’s investment experience spans across artificial intelligence, data center infrastructure, enterprise software auto tech / mobility, semiconductors, IoT / connectivity, and digital health. Prior to Samsung, JC held business development and product marketing roles at venture-backed RoamBI. His Silicon Valley experiences also include working at Apple in a partner development capacity and as an investment banker at Jefferies & Co. During and directly after business school, JC also served as an investment associate at Apjohn Ventures, an early stage biotech venture fund, and at a family office in Ann Arbor. JC holds an MBA and MHA from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. He also holds an MS from the Carnegie Mellon Schools of Computer Science and Tepper School of Business and has completed an MPH from the Tulane School of Public Health. His undergraduate studies were completed at Loyola Marymount in Los Angeles. JC is Kauffman Venture Capital Fellow.
Jonathan (JC) Charles Former Investment Director of Samsung Catalyst Fund