(#13) VB Map podcast: Venture building in Europe, future of corporate venturing and work automation scenarios: A conversation with Jori Clijmans, partner of XLR8

VB Map Podcast - Venture Building and Corporate Innovation

Jori Clijmans is a partner of XLR8, a Belgium based accelerator of B2B technology and enterprise startups. He is the co-founder of the Belgium-based venture studio 0smosis, which created and spun off multiple venture-backed startups in collaboration with corporate partners.
Jori has a deep innovation and product consulting background and is uniquely positioned to speak to the challenges of corporate venture building and how to think about setting up innovation capabilities that deliver enterprise outcomes.
Key highlights of the episode:

• What’s different between venture building in Asia and Europe
• Ways to eliminate corporate startup risk as early as possible in the process
• The importance of bringing the CEO early on to de-risk the venture after concept validation
• Building a quality label, CEO pool and VC network, as a VB
• The challenges of an investment-first VB vs consulting-first studio model
• How classic consulting services and corporate VB may merge in the future
• Building stakeholder alignment with consulting-for-equity models
• Tips for working with VCs as a VB
• The challenge of studio focus and separating internal resources for own ventures vs client ventures