Lucas Rudolf | 574 Invest | Corporate Venture Capital INSIGHTS | Claudia Zeisberger

Описание: Corporate venturing in industrial sectors often flies under the radar — but 574 Invest, the innovation and venturing arm of SNCF (French national railways), has been building a serious CVC capability for years.

In this episode of CVC INSIGHTS, Lucas Rudolf walks through how 574 Invest approaches corporate venture capital: the mandate, the portfolio strategy, and the ongoing challenge of staying relevant inside one of France’s largest public sector organisations. He is direct about the constraints — and equally direct about what works.

This conversation is particularly useful for executives running or considering CVCs inside large, complex, or regulated organisations where the startup mindset is not the default. The lessons from 574 Invest translate well beyond the rail sector.

Lucas Rudolf, Head of Investment at '574 Invest'; he is based in Paris and an INSEAD Alumnus GEMBA’14. ‘574 Invest’ is the Corporate Venture Capital arm of SNCF, France's national state-owned railway company.

This video is part of the playlist "Corporate Venturing & CVC – Open Innovation"
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About Claudia Zeisberger
Professor Zeisberger has over 30 years of experience as a finance professional with deep expertise in private equity and venture capital, corporate venturing, and risk management. As a Professor at INSEAD, the business school with campuses in Singapore, France, UAE and the US, she is a global citizen and award-winning author as well as an angel investor. She is a founding member of KKR’s Sustainable Expert Advisory Committee (SEAC) and sits on the Advisory Boards of Standard Chartered Ventures (SCV), Linzor Capital, S4Learning in Mexico and KaizenVest. Passionate about the future of education, she acts as a volunteer board advisor to Girl Rising, a non-profit focused on education and empowerment.

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