When it comes to the startup, I think CBCs tend to be known for being kind of patient capital.

They have a bit more patience when it comes to those outcomes.

The automotive vehicle itself being connected to satellites and the cloud and the whole

kind of ecosystem is something that's really, really relevant.

So anything that bolsters and makes that connectivity more secure, more scalable, more cost-effective

is really, really interesting to us.

Preseed, and even series A companies

kind of raise capital within the UK or even broader Europe.

And then they naturally look to how can I scale as quickly as possible.

And the answer typically tends to be moving to the US.

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slash EN-GB. Hello and welcome to the UKTM podcast, a weekly chat with the movers and shakers of the UK tech industry

and the destination for all things UK tech related.

I'm your host, Jane Wakefield, and today I'm joined by Sam Nasralahi,

principle of in-motion ventures, the investment arm of Jaguar Land Rover. Welcome, Sam.

Thank you. Thank you for having me. Now, first of all, I wanted to ask you a question,

which is probably quite a DASF question, but I do ask Daff questions from time to time.

And it's about what the difference is between corporate venture capital and normal VC,

because this was the sort of thing that I was most confused about when I kind of came across you guys.

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