💡From idea to impact. At @TOtechweek , we sat down with @nigeldacosta , Managing Director at @HighlineBeta , to break down the venture studio model: ✅ Build in-house until it’s ready ✅ Pair with founders & funding ✅ Focus on profitable, real-world businesses fast It’s all

Loved hosting everyone and looking forward to more

great energy, loved the event

📸 We loved @HighlineBeta's The Ethereum Frontier at @TOtechweek! 😍 Great convos, plenty of food, an open bar 🍸and insights from @dimabuterin (AKA "The Grandfather of Ethereum"), @coinbase's Country Director @lucmatheson & more. Congrats to @nigeldacosta and the entire

💫Highlights from The Ethereum Frontier event by @HighlineBeta at @TOtechweek! Fireside wisdom from @dimabuterin 😎, real convos, great food, and better vibes. 😍 Here’s how it all went down 👇 @nigeldacosta

The best VCs, corporate or not, are the ones who actually help. The rest are just capital.

The evolution of CVCs has been driven by: — The need for real returns. — A more founder-friendly approach—no more exclusivity clauses or rights of first refusal. — A shift from single-LP CVCs to multi-LP models—creating alignment across industries.

Ten years ago, founders avoided CVCs for fear of misaligned incentives. Today, the best CVCs operate exactly like traditional VCs—just with a sharper industry edge.

Check out the full episode here:

Disruptors aim to compete with incumbents, often by building more efficient, tech-driven alternatives. Enablers, on the other hand, sell into the industry, embedding new solutions into existing infrastructure. Which side do you think has the bigger opportunity right now?

Dan Reed came on Beyond the Core this week to talk about how startups fall into two camps: disruptors and enablers.

We hope you enjoy the series and would love to hear your feedback! Who do you want us to interview? Tag them below 👇

Then, sharing our learnings through a variety of formats, including a weekly podcast (audio and video), daily short-form video clips here on LinkedIn, and a weekly newsletter and blog distilling the key takeaways.

We’ll be interviewing leaders like Kal Amin (in today’s first episode), Pedro Earp, Amar Varma, Dan Reed, Mike Dobbins, Leandro Balbinot, Brice Scheschuk, CPA, CA, Daniel Magnuszewski, and many others.

So, Beyond The Core explores how leading organizations are breaking free from traditional models to build significant new ventures.

While most organizations stick to incremental improvements or traditional corporate venture capital, the most ambitious players are pushing beyond their core - building venture studios, spinning out billion-dollar businesses, and creating entirely new markets.

After a decade of building and investing in corporate ventures, we've noticed something critical: The innovation playbook that built today's biggest companies is under extreme pressure to fundamentally shift.

🎉LAUNCH DAY! We’re so excited to release our new podcast and content series, Beyond The Core. Here’s what it’s all about: [THREAD 👇

If you want to provide a great user experience w/ insurance, you need to hide all of the complexity. Users don’t want complexities, they want a streamlined experience, and to do this you need data - read more about what @byosko has to say about this here: https://t.co/xVJP031sAY

Head of Venture Strategy, Erik Garbin sees top-performing insurers turning existing data into strategic insights. He discusses today’s cutting-edge tools that give insurers the opp to make sense of unstructured data, & shares 3 key principles: https://t.co/wyAk3vZ0dP