Where CVCs and interested Corporations learn
Starting and Operating a Profitable, Agile CVC Fund: Balancing Corporate 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 Guest
Experienced CVC with more than 20 years working for Siemens and Bosch Ventures
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 Luis Llovera, former Investment Partner- Bosch Venture Capital and Siemens Venture Capital on “Challenges and Opportunities for Corporate Venture Capital Funds"
2:10 PM - 2:40 PM
Benefits for Corporates to operate a CVC Fund
Andrew Maywah, experienced Venture Capital executive, who co-started TDK Ventures, will speak about the important reasons and benefits for corporates to have a CVC Fund.
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 formulate investment thesis, leading to a new structure of DD Documents. 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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Prior to joining Bosch in 2008, Luis was an Investment Partner for over 6 years with Siemens Venture Capital. Some of his investments included Agility Communications (acquired by JDSU), GENBAND, Covega (acquired by Gemfire) and Polychromix. Luis has over 17 years of operating experience in the hi-tech industry.
Luis Llovera Former Director of Bosch and Simens Ventures