Bio

Dr. Martin Haemmig is an international expert on Venture Capital & Corporate VC. He was an advisor to CVC firms and VCs, as well as to governments and VC associations in Asia, Europe, Israel, and USA. He was a university lecturer and VC/CVC trainer on ''Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital (VC/CVC) & Globalizing Startups'', and used to be a private angel investor to transnational leading-edge tech startups from around the world. Over the past two decades, he has collaborated in long-term programs across the World Economic Forum (WEF) and Stanford University (Senior Advisor on Venture Capital), conducting research across thousands of startups spanning the globe. He specializes in VC & CVC trends, and benchmarks industry sector developments across geographies and regularly tracks these across 13 countries. He lectured at several leading universities throughout the world (U.S., Europe, China, India, etc.), as part of his 5-7 months annual global travels. As of 2018, Dr. Martin Haemmig switched his activities from being in academia to work more with corporates that go through their ‘Digital Transformation’ phase and need to embrace innovation more radically in conjunction with speedy and creative startups and combine this by setting up a Corporate Venturing/CVC unit. In addition, he is advising an international deep-tech VC-firm. Martin Haemmig earned his electronics degree in Switzerland, his MBA and doctorate in California and is a graduate from the Board Management School at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland. He worked for 20 years in global high-tech companies around the world and obtained the Swiss National Marketing Champion award in 1994, before returning to academia from 2000 to 2018. Recent Projects: ----------------- > Conducted largest research ever on “The Globalization of Venture Capital” resulting in a 600-page book > Advisory for the Beijing government and the Shanghai VC Association > Conducted Research on “High Growth Startups” (Stanford University & WEF) ...read... ( https://www.slideshare.net/gfwatson/global-entrepreneurship-10321364 ) > Served as core team member at WEF on multiple projects > Served for years as ''Senior Adviser on Venture Capital'' at Stanford University (SPRIE) > Trained hundreds of CVCs & VCs in the U.S., Europe and Asia on globalizing their activities > Educated globally entrepreneurs on corporate co-creation and on internationalization