Why Scouting For Growth

Scouting for Growth

Sabine VdL

Business, Entrepreneurship

5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2022

⏱️ 7 minutes

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I just thought I would explain… Why Scouting for Growth? I have been fortunate for the past six years to work with Tech ventures wanting to change the world of insurance, finance, health, and wealth to name but a few. And to accelerate great companies, one needs to understand a little bit about "business." I have been fascinated with building growth ecosystems for the past six years. Getting my ventures to collaborate better and faster. At the same time, I have been driven by the potential of enabling my corporate partners to collaborate better with tech ventures while enabling those growth ventures with the greatest potential to engage with the many investors who gave me their trust. "Scouting For Growth" is the underlying premise for both … Venture Capitalists and Corporate "Venturists!" One side is looking for financial returns mostly from investing in start-up ventures. The other side tries to balance both financial and strategic returns. And often create unnecessary tech bubbles through the process. Anyway, I want to demystify through this podcast series two important processes that yield strong financial outcomes though 1) partnership, 2) investment, but then leading to 3) growth and 4) scale. First, Scouting For Growth is about scouting for ventures: or identifying and nurturing startups that are aligned to major market problems. The outcome sought may mostly be partnerships and collaborations but also longer-term investment opportunities for the many. Second, Scouting For Growth is about building ventures: or creating and designing new customer value propositions supported by disruptive business models able to solve some of the most complex challenges we need to contend with today. Hopefully, the lessons learnt will ensure that we gather the right tools and techniques to build the growth business of tomorrow. You will also find that… I am French. I have been in the UK for 30 years. I am fortunate to work every day with some renowned international companies. But despite my great English I still and often drop my “ses” and count in French. I hope you won’t mind. You can take the French gal out of France. But rarely will you change her truly! ABOUT THE HOST Sabine is a corporate strategist turned entrepreneur. She is the CEO and Managing Partner of Alchemy Crew, a venture lab that accelerates the curation, validation, & commercialization of new tech business models. Sabine is renowned within the insurance sector for building some of the most renowned tech startup accelerators around the world working with over 30 corporate insurers & accelerating over 100 startup ventures. Sabine is the co-editor of the bestseller The INSURTECH Book, a top 50 Women in Tech, a FinTech and InsurTech Influencer, an investor & multi-award winner. Twitter: SabineVdL LinkedIn: Sabine VanderLinden Instagram: sabinevdLofficial Facebook: SabineVdLOfficial TikTok: sabinevdlofficial Email: [email protected] Website: www.sabinevdl.com

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Scouting for Growth. I'm Sabine Vinderlinden, your host for this podcast series,
0:23.2	and my goal is to focus my intention and yours on demystifying the world of venturing and corporate
0:30.5	venturing. So yes, I've worked for cooperation, big ones actually, for 18 years of my life. In 2015, I decided to focus my attention
0:41.6	on the young venture world, the founders, the entrepreneurs and the cooperation they are
0:46.9	working with, what we call venturing in the investor world. Over the past 25 years, I've worked in consulting in insurance, in shaping
0:58.2	acceleration programs and closely with tech ventures, aiming to transform finance, insurance,
1:05.9	health, tech and more. My motto is simple. To accelerate great companies, you need to understand the drivers
1:14.6	of business growth. I am fascinated by building growth ecosystems, I'm very well known for those,
1:23.1	enabling ventures to collaborate faster and better too.
1:34.4	At the same time, I absolutely love to enable corporations to partner with high potential tech ventures while connecting those ventures with investors.
1:38.3	Indeed, I have also been known and I do understand how important it is for businesses to collaborate with
1:48.2	each other. By working together, businesses can share resources, knowledge and expertise,
1:55.2	and they can also achieve more than they could on their own. That is what scouting for growth is all about. It is about
2:03.8	helping businesses find the right partners and investors. It is about giving them the tools and
2:09.6	technique they need to grow and scale. It is also about understanding what it takes to bring a great
2:16.1	go-to-market strategy to life. It is about branding.
2:19.7	Yes, it is about founder authenticity too. It is about knowledge and expertise. Not for the
2:27.1	five minutes. Chat we often have on our first call, but for the 15 conversations you and I often have with one single commercial
2:36.4	partner or investor over a three-month period. No tech can replace those, the credibility,
2:43.1	the authenticity, and the creativity required to succeed. I've learned to build digital-driven
2:50.4	growth ecosystems over the past 10 years. I also
2:54.1	work with the very best company to shape their R&D and adoption programs. We can dive further into
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