Startups Against Corona

During crises like Covid-19 top start-ups may be a critical resource for recovery, providing quick solutions where they’re needed most. Supply chains are in turmoil; businesses are getting crushed; millions of jobs might be disappearing. On top of all this, the looming public health crisis threatens to claim as many lives in total.

As opposed to established incumbents, top start-ups have an advantage in this sort of agile problem solving. They have unique, often patented intellectual property, billions in venture capital to fund their risky innovation projects, a bare-bones workforce, and some of the most talented engineers and managers.

In this webinar we will discuss how start-ups could help by (a) directly supporting governments with innovative and fast solutions; but (b) even more importantly for the purposes of this discussion, start-ups could help thousands of corporates with their extremely difficult problems.

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Speakers

Gregor Gimmy

Managing Director
27 pilots

Christian Heinrich

Co-founder & VP Growth
scoutbee GmbH

Mario Pieper

Chief Digital Officer & Head of Digital Business Unit
BSH Home Appliances Group

Moderator

Joerg Niessing

Senior Affiliate Professor of Marketing
INSEAD

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Additional reading:

How Corporates Can Leverage Start-ups Against COVID-19 by Joerg Niessing, INSEAD Knowledge, 10 April 2020
What BMW’s Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can’t by Gregor Gimmy, Harvard Business Review, 27 July, 2017

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