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Scouting for Growth

Minh Tran: Introducing Venture Capital as a Service

Scouting for Growth

Sabine VdL

Business, Entrepreneurship

51.8K Ratings

🗓️ 13 April 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Sabine VdL interviews Minh Tran, Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Mandalore Partners about the world of VCs. He has worked in Corporate VC for 30 years, most recently in financial services and founding Mandalore Partners 10 years ago.

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0:00.0

The Good morning everyone. Today I'm with my co-founder Min Tran and we are going to talk about the world of Vissies. So, hi, Min, thank you very much for giving me your time today.

0:30.0

Hello Sabine, very good to be here.

0:32.0

And I think it's important. Hello Sabine, very good to be here.

0:33.0

And I think it's important to say that we know each other for a long time, at least three to four years,

0:40.0

before we decided to work together isn't it? Yes I came to across your path when I was at exile and probably almost 10 years now.

0:56.0

So yeah good to go to with the family. Yes.

0:57.0

So tell us, Main, a little bit more about you.

1:01.0

I would love for you to share with our listener a little bit more about who you are, what you love, and what you do every day.

1:10.0

So I'm 52 and I've been in corporate venture for 30 years in three different

1:18.0

wave first wave I was just working for you know a corporate that wanted to do joint venture.

1:25.0

Second Wave, I worked for a media corporate venture in Bertramman

1:30.0

when he was doing Odeible and Napster.

1:33.3

And also for NOCA Venture,

1:35.9

when they invested in PayPal.

1:38.5

That's my second wave.

1:39.4

And the third wave about 10 years ago,

1:41.0

I decided to focus on financial services. I worked for a VC firm

1:47.1

Coroner, Tropical, and then I started to launch my own firm on the concept of VC as a service, CVC as a service, and I created back in 2012

2:01.6

Axa Venture or Access Seat Factory that was the first Intertec Fund in France or in Europe 10 years ago.

2:13.4

Congratulations. You have been very early on the path of corporate venturing.

2:21.6

So tell us a little bit more about mandatory partners. So we work together at

2:27.3

Archimme crew where you support me with my ventures and enabling corporates to better understand how to excel with growth ventures,

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