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Guillaume Cabrère
Empowering mobility transformation
Guillaume Cabrère is the Head of Startup Engagement at Volvo Cars Tech Fund, which is a part of Volvo Cars. Here are some key points about him:
- Experience: He has over 25 years of experience in his field.12
- Current Role: As the Head of Startup Engagement, he is responsible for engaging with startups and fostering innovation within the automotive sector through the Volvo Cars Tech Fund.12
- Education: Guillaume Cabrère holds a degree from Sciences Po, a prestigious institution in France.1
- Location: He is based in Gothenburg, Sweden.12
- Recent Activities: He has been involved in supporting various startup initiatives, including those related to automotive innovation, as evident from his LinkedIn posts.3
Highlights
Congratulations to our portfolio company, RemotiveLabs on securing funding from both new and existing investors! 👏
In this round, Volvo Cars and Volvo Cars Tech Fund reiterate their continued support for the company. RemotiveLabs helps automotive software developers speed up the path to Software Defined Vehicles (#SDV), and we are excited to see their impact on the industry.
Kudos to the founders Per Sigurdson and Aleksandar Filipov, to Shkölqim Fejzi, to Almi Invest, Truckdoktorn AB, Sandberg Development AB, and S-E-Bankens Utvecklingsstiftelse!
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STARTUP AUTOBAHN powered by Plug and Play EXPO2024 is a wrap! It was great to share a few thoughts on Collaborative Innovation along the Automotive Value Chain, together with Madeline Schmeiser (Plug And Play), Martin Vollmer (Forvia Hella), and Matthias Feulner (NXP). My key take-away:
- Innovation requires collaboration: it is a given. In such a fast evolving tech landscape and complex world, no company can solve all their challenges just on their own.
- Innovation requires time and space. OEMs need to ring-fence resources to let their teams explore creative solutions to engineering, manufacturing and customers’ pain points. Be deliberate about your innovation efforts.
- Innovation requires optionality. It is undoubtedly a must to innovate by collaborating with your Tier 1 and Tier 2. However, adding startups into the mix can limit your dependency to their existing tech roadmaps. Trading the comfort of an existing relationship for the laser-focus dedication of a startup can bring unexpected capabilities and extra speed to your tech roadmap!
- Innovating with startups is tough. Mobilize your own tech specialists so that they can mentor the startup and guide their engineering work. Implementing Luminar Technologies’ lidar in our premium #EX90 SUV is the result of a 6-year journey, requiring radical collaboration among the teams. But thankfully, it should make the roads safer. ;-)
- Bringing patient capital to the startups is a great way to maintain the alignment of interest over time, across the highs and the lows of the collaboration. This is one of the value-add brought by Volvo Cars Tech Fund to their portfolio companies.
Want to know more? Please reach out! PS: Thank you Wim De Spiegeleer for the panel's picture! ;-)
