The Corporate Venturing Podcast

An Open Road Ventures Podcast - Supported by Bundl Venture ClubMade for all the corporate entrepreneurs out there. Informal discussions on Open Innovation and Corporate Venturing insights and trends. 🎙️ Hosted by Davide Ritorto, founder and author at Open Road Ventures.⚡️ Powered by Bundl Venture Club: Digitally connecting senior corporate innovators from global companies across industries and borders in an inspiration, learning, and support network.

The Corporate Venturing Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Davide Ritorto, with 22 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Davide Ritorto hosts The Corporate Venturing Podcast, a business show with 22 episodes published.

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  #21 - Incorruptible: Why Corporate Innovation Keeps Drifting w/ Eric Ries

  May 29, 202639 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I'm joined by Eric Ries, creator of the Lean Startup method, founder of the Long-Term Stock Exchange, and author of Incorruptible.</p><p>Eric spent 20 years watching companies he helped build get quietly dismantled. His diagnosis: corporate corruption is a design problem. The system itself was built to pull organizations toward short-termism. He calls it financial gravity. Nobody ordered it. It just happened, because the structure made it inevitable.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Eric shares insights on:</p><p>⚖️ Why FedMart was destroyed by the exact customer trust it spent 20 years building, and...

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  #20 - Breaking Innovation Barriers: Getting Management to Say Yes w/ Gijs van Wulfen (FORTH Method)

  Feb 27, 202637 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I'm joined by ⁠Gijs van Wulfen⁠, founder of the FORTH Innovation Method, bestselling author, and keynote speaker named the #1 Design Thinking Thought Leader in the world by Thinkers360. His latest book, Breaking Innovation Barriers, is a practical guide to one of the hardest parts of innovation: getting management to say yes.</p><p>This is not an episode about innovation theory or design thinking frameworks.</p><p>It's about the uncomfortable reality that most innovation efforts die not from bad ideas, but from organizational resistance, misaligned incentives, and leaders who ask for innovation then block it at e...

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  #19 - Why Innovation Fails: The Hidden Identity Cost of Change w/ Federico Malatesta

  Feb 13, 202637 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I’m joined by Federico Malatesta, executive transformational coach and author, who works at the intersection of leadership, identity, and organizational change. Federico helps senior leaders navigate moments when the old story no longer works — and a new one is trying to emerge.</p><p>This is not an episode about CVC, venture building frameworks, or innovation toolkits.</p><p>It’s about the uncomfortable reason why innovation and transformation fail even when the strategy is sound: leaders underestimate the identity cost of change. </p><p>We explore innovation not as a portfolio problem, but as a psyc...

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  #18 - Design Thinking & Open Innovation in The Gen-AI Era

  Jan 30, 202640 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I’m joined by Harsh Wardhan, Innovation Strategist at a major Big Tech company (leading design for Search & Labs) and formerly a founding member of a Design Lab in an big automotive OEM. Harsh sits at the unique intersection of two worlds: the high-stakes, high-CapEx constraints of the automotive industry and the infinite, high-speed ambiguity of Generative AI.</p><p>We strip away the "theater" of innovation (the sticky notes and workshops) to focus on the hard metrics and methodologies that actually de-risk ventures, whether you are bending metal or writing code.</p><p><br></p><p>...

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  #17 - Inside Woven Capital: The Playbook for Growth-Stage Venturing w/ Nicole LeBlanc (Woven Capital)

  Jan 16, 202632 minS0

  <p>In this episode, I’m joined by Nicole LeBlanc, Partner at Woven Capital, Toyota’s growth-stage venture fund. Nicole and her team manage a combined $1.6B across two funds, sitting at the critical junction where startups need to move from "move fast and break things" to global deployment.</p><p>We explore the launch of their new $800M Fund 2, how they differentiate from early-stage investing, and what it really takes to integrate external innovation into the world’s largest automaker.</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode, Nicole shares insights on:</p><p>💸 The $800M Signal </p><p>Why Woven...

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