E523 Nicolas Sauvage, President at TDK Ventures

Today's guest is Nicolas Sauvage, President at TDK Ventures. Founded in 2018, TDK Ventures is a Corporate VC firm investing globally in early-stage hard-tech projects - serving entrepreneurs, the ultimate Impact Scalers, who are creating a new era of sustainability and social value. From enabling sustainable energy solutions to accelerating advanced materials breakthroughs to ensuring wider availability of sophisticated healthcare technologies, TDK Ventures is actively searching for solutions for difficult problems.

The TDK VC firm believes in a sustainable world where digital, energy, and environmental transformation will improve billions of lives. It's their mission is to help accelerate learning, bring meaningful contributions to society, and invest in startups with similar ideals. They deliver meaningful financial results with their co-investors and bringing new, powerful, transformational business opportunities to TDK. By focusing on Scaling Impact, they ensure a sense of purpose and a sense of urgency, with both patience and speed in their investment decision-making.

In this episode, Nicolas talks about:

His journey from software engineer to TDK Ventures,

Why Product management is pivotal to aid success,

His personal concept: "Sheila first, scaling impact scalers, patience and impatience,"

Striving for financial success, societal impact and entrepreneurial support,

Utilizing material science for clean tech breakthroughs strategically,

Examples of their backed startups in green technology innovation,

How GenAI drives investments in low-cost inference technology,

Integrating startups for strategic synergies and collaborations