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FPC: Global Innovation & Local Action
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At Future Planet, our mission is not simply to deliver excellent returns but to create a lasting impact: by connecting the world's largest investors with its best minds, we believe we can address the greatest challenges that humanity faces today across Climate Change, Education, Health, Security and Sustainable Growth.
We invest in high-growth potential companies from the world's top research ecosystems. Our global network and local strategies provide unrivaled access to companies emerging from leading academic institutions and the centres of innovation that surround them. They also help us to benchmark and assist our team members and partners operating in more localised areas.
We have a number of world-leading advisors and partners that help us with our quest - including Jerry Engel, Adjunct Pofessor Emeritus, Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley. Jerry is a leader in entrepreneurship education, venture capital, corporate innovation and regional economic development. Jerry is a member of FPC's Investment Governance Board and you can watch a video below which outlines some of his thinking about the role of scientists, research institutions, corporations and startups in the innovation ecosystem and how these players can successfully collaborate together.
MIT Solve, our feature partner in last month's Future Thinking, also has a mandate that highly complements our own. They are on the hunt for founders from around the world, solving solutions locally, which they can then scale globally. For more information about MIT Solve, or how you can become a Solver, visit here.
Later this month we are also launching a number of consultations for the second installment of “The Wei Forward Report”, written by Lord Wei of Shoreditch, the social entrepreneur and Conservative peer. Lord Wei is a member of FPC's Advisory Board and we have commissioned the report to set out how venture capital can provide the solution to harnessing university-originated innovation, enabling the next generation of entrepreneurs to supercharge efforts to solve the biggest problems. You can read a copy of the first report here.
How do we connect local action to global innovation and problem solving? Over the next two months Future Thinking is going to set out exactly that.
Please read on below to find out more - as always, don't hesitate to get in touch if more information would be helpful.
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Professor Jerome S. Engel is an internationally recognized expert on innovation, entrepreneurship, and venture capital, lecturing and advising business and government leaders around the world. A Silicon Valley veteran and founder of the Lester Center for Entrepreneurship at UC Berkeley, and Investment Governance Board Member for Future Planet. Most recently he has focused on developing innovation ecosystems globally.
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Global informing the Local
We are pleased to share with you the key ways that we work on both a global and local scale - and ensure that our insights inform each other.
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Benchmarking
FPC has identified and seen that some of the biggest inventions and companies with the largest potential emerge from the founders and science from the world's leading universities. However, this doesn't mean that great ideas and businesses can't be found elsewhere. We look to benchmark and connect innovation from top centres of innovation to opportunities at a local level in a number of key geographic areas. We manage a number of funds that have a specific local focus, ranging from farms in New Zealand & Australia to SMEs in the British West Midlands.
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Linking Opportunities and Market Access
Our local and global approach means that we can link opportunities at a global scale to local action, and vice versa. We can match global oversight, with specific regional knowledge which informs our investments and insights. We are also able to provide market access in areas where our teams and partners have unrivaled local knowledge.
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Fostering New Centres of Innovation
With the help of our global network, including Professor Engel, we take key learnings from leading centres of innovation around the world and work to replicate these patterns in other geographies. We use these learnings to inform our processes and impact how we connect our teams and our investments, utilising our network to profitably address global challenges.
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Challenge Investing
If you would like more information or if you’d like to invest in some of the most promising growth companies, at both a local and global scale, based on top research then please don't hesitate to get in touch.
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