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De-Risking Deep Tech: How Bosch Is Rethinking Corporate Venture Building

Venture building has a perception problem. Across much of the Western innovation ecosystem, the term often invites scepticism — linked to failed corporate initiatives, consultant-led “startup factories,” and accelerators that never quite delivered. The prevailing view is that venture building is slow, rigid, and ill-equipped to compete with lean, independent founders.

But that narrative may be incomplete.
What if some of Europe’s most defensible deep-tech companies don’t emerge despite large corporates — but because ofthem?

In this episode of 0100 Impact Talks, I spoke with Axel Deniz, CEO of Bosch Business Innovation, to discuss how Bosch approaches venture building differently — and why corporate venture creation may be entering a more mature, disciplined, and increasingly essential phase for deep-tech innovation.

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