1. J I M D E W I L D E
M A R C H 1 1 , 2 0 1 4 G L O B A L S H A P E R S
GLOBAL VENTURE
CAPITAL: THE NEW
ECONOMIC ROADMAP

2. A CONNECTED INVESTMENT
ECOSYSTEM
SOME POSSIBLE 2024 headlines
• MADAGASCAR SWF coinvest with SAMSUNG VENTURES in
BRAZILIAN Amazon conservation initiative
• ALIBABA VENTURES invests in BRAZILIAN digital music studio
• HYDRO QUEBEC NEW TECHNOLOGIES VENTURES and CHINESE
VC start DESERTEC III in North Africa
• NOVARTIS VENTURES and ZIMBABWE SWF invests in KUNMING
insect agriculture (commercialized entomology)

3. GETTING HERE FROM THERE
• Inventing new financial instruments
• Rewarding global connectedness
• Capital in the hands of a billion next generation
entrepreneurs

4. THE CANADIAN MOMENT
• Global connectedness is a key competitive
advantage
• Tamil-Somali relationships from Toronto
• Vietnamese-Senegalese deals from Montreal
• Taiwanese-Indonesian perspectives from
Vancouver
• GLOBAL VENTURE CAPITAL – a new economic
reality
• FINANCING NEW PRODUCTIVE INVESTMENTS Arable
land is the new software, incineration and zero-
waste cities the new infrastructure

5. GLOBAL CONNECTEDNESS
• Most importantly, there is a competitive advantage
in global connectedness and the world’s leading
technology hubs (Singapore, Helsinki, Stockholm,
Waterloo, Vancouver, Montréal, Seoul) will become
the new engines of growth in the post-
reconstruction model of global capitalism.

6. DIGITAL MENA DIGITAL ARABIA AND
NEW AREAS OF PRODUCTIVE
INVESTMENT
• But we are at the early stages of creating global
venture capital. Tens of thousands of jobs in the
Arabic-speaking world can be created through
using SWFs to finance job-creating and
experimental digital media projects. See OASIS500.
•

7. WE NEED TO ALL BE VENTURE
CAPITALISTS IN THE NEW GLOBAL
ECONOMY
• But with the exception of specialized global growth venture
capital funds, the global capital markets are not set up to
back the next Kellogg or Omidyar.
• We are in the middle of a transformation of capital markets as
the world’s great companies from Nike to Samsung, from
Qualcomm to Siemens become venture capitalist
commercializing the next generation of industrial research.
• http://www.samsungventures.com/
• http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-09-28/nike-taps-
venture-arm-for-green-ideas-after-making-jerseys-out-of-
bottles.html
• http://www.qualcomm.com/about/businesses/ventures

8. ZENNSTROM
• Niklas Zennstrom has argued that, in effect, we can
expect a Nigerian equivalent of Kellogg’s or a
Mozambican equivalent of EBay in this century.
• www.atomico.com

9. PITANGO CHEMI PERES
http://www.pitango.com/team_member.asp?ID=25
•
ISRAELI INVESTMENT IN PALESTINIAN STARTUPS
http://techcrunch.com/2013/10/01/pitango-closes-
new-270m-fund-to-fuel-more-startups-coming-out-of-
israel/

10. JACK MA
• “Godfather of China’s scrappy entrepreneurial
spirit”: Alibaba’s Jack Ma is FT’s person of the year
• http://www.techinasia.com/alibaba-founder-jack-
ma-ft-person-of-year-2013/

11. MOHAMMED IBRAHIM
• http://vc4africa.biz/blog/2011/12/30/video-
mohamed-ibrahim-founder-of-africas-
telecommunications-revolution/

12. DESIGNING A PROSPEROUS WORLD
• GLOBAL VENTURE CAPITAL SHAPES NEW FRONTIERS
AND CREATES NEW MARKETS
• CHANNELLING CAPITAL INTO PRODUCTIVE
ACTIVITIES IS THE #1 ECONOMIC CHALLENGE FOR
GLOBAL DECISION-MAKERS AFTER THE 2008
ECONOMIC REALIGNMENT