The Hi everyone welcome to today's edition of Scouting for Growth.

Today I'm meeting with Scott Gantr, General Partner of IAG Farm Ag Ventures, the Corporate Venture Capital Fund of IAG, located in Australia.

Scott has been at IAG for over 10 years and has been running the venture arm for over six years.

With strong expertise in marketing, customer experience among others, Scott wanted to bring something new to the group by opening its doors to the external world to ensure its resilience and relevance for the very long term.

During this podcast Scott and I discussed a few main points.

Scott's path to CVC land,

what does IAD farm aqu

do to remain top of its game, talent, talent, talent, talent, and what does remote working means for Scott

and his teams, and best practice for startups, Gallup, corporate innovators, corporate investors wanting to build startup,

corporate innovators, corporate investors wanting to build their future corporate arm.

So let's welcome to scouting for growth today. I'm with Scott Ganther.

So Scott is actually with us from Australia and he will tell us a little bit more about his journey into corporate venture capitalism.

So Scott, welcome and thank you for joining us today.

Thank you for having me to be.

So first, I always ask my co-host to tell us a little bit more about them about their career, why they got where they are. I know you have been at IAG now for over eight years and you have

moving to corporate adventuring four years ago. So please tell us a little bit more.

Yeah, I think probably just sort of going back where I started my career is when you came from

university and you've gone back through and you've done either, you know, a Bachelor of Commerce

or you might have been liking up know a Bachelor of Commerce or you might have been

lucky enough to the Bachelor of Technology you always sort of don't know where

you're going to you know end up you know you're going to end up and maybe working

in a big accounting firm or a big consultancy firm or you're going to work with a big corporate

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