Are venture capitalists just good at picking companies that will ultimately be successful? Or do they actually help them become successful through their valueadded work. During the Private Capital Symposium 2022, Ramana Nanda, Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Academic Lead for the Institute of Deep Tech Entrepreneurship at Imperial Business School and Gary Dushnitsky, Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship discuss about how venture capital is being instrumental to driving innovation in companies and how to unlock the barriers to commercialising deep tech.

0:24 What are some of the strength or advantages of the venture capital model?
3:24 Where does the persistence and performance across funds come from in VC?
5:40 What's the best use case for venture capital and what are some of the challenges that we can see associated with the venture capital model?
10:00 How to unlock the challenges of driving innovation and the barriers to commercialisation of deep tech