Vertex Perspectives | Global Innovation and Venture Capital Beyond the Pandemic - Highlights

With COVID-19, startups have been put through their first stress test amidst dampening of consumer demand and the pandemic has also dramatically changed the operating environment for venture capitalists. Vertex Holdings recently hosted a webinar with its global partners to discuss how COVID-19 will impact global technology trends and venture capital activities. The discussion covered a few broad topics:

• The recovery outlook across different markets
• Structural changes with the acceleration of consumer activities online
• Investment strategies over the next 12 months

Here are some highlights of the webinar:

In this first video, our panelists discusses the near-term COVID-19 recovery outlook.

Carolyn NG of Vertex Ventures HC shares her views on the recovery outlook from a healthcare and biopharma perspective.

What are the longer term, structural changes that could come out of this? Our panelists discuss how our portfolio companies are navigating this changing landscape.

In this final video, our partners share how they are looking at investing and managing their portfolios over the next 12 months, and address some burning questions from our webinar audience.

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