On September 10, we’re bringing over 120 corporate leaders, investors and breakout founders together in London for the EUVC Corporate Summit.

The aim is practical: give corporate leaders direct access to peer experience, tested approaches and potential partners they can apply to their own venture and innovation priorities.

Europe attracted $27.1bn of the $213bn invested globally in venture in Q2 2026: just 13% of the total, according to the BVK Global Venture Capital Report.

Corporate participation can help close that gap by pairing capital with something equally valuable: a route for new technologies into European industry.

The programme will examine how to:

Some of the speakers joining us:

- Joe Schorge | Founder and Managing Partner at Isomer Capital
- Cynthia Hansen, Managing Director of Innovation Foundation, empowered by The Adecco Group
- Alokik Advani, Partner at 7RIDGE
- Marcus Behrendt, Managing Partner at BMW i Ventures
- Boris Hofmann, Head of ZEISS Ventures
- Marc Thom | Corporate Vice President CVC and Head of Henkel Ventures
- David Delfassy | Investment Director at TDK Ventures
- Martin Schilling | Co-Founder and CEO at Deep Tech Momentum
- Jessica Persson | Head of VC and M&A at Scania
- Mike Smeed | Managing Director at InMotion Ventures
- Julien Fredonie | Head of Strategic Partnerships and Corporate Venturing (Europe & Africa) at Honda Xcelerator Ventures
- Matthias Schanze | Founding Partner of Rethink Ventures

Half the room will be corporate executives and CVC leaders, 40% will be investors and 10% breakout founders. Corporate leaders can compare capital strategies with investors and hear directly from founders about what helps startup partnerships move through procurement and beyond the pilot.

If you’re working to make startup collaboration or corporate investment deliver more strategic value, we’d be delighted to welcome you.