Nicolas Sauvage

Nicolas is the Founder and President of TDK Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of TDK Corporation, mapping the next frontiers of material science, energy, and digital transformation. He tracks how the global deeptech ecosystem evolves, writing about corporate venture alignment and how startups scale with strategic backing. He also hosts the Corporate Venturing Insider podcast, publishing regularly on the mechanics of corporate capital.He's also the Chair of the Global Corporate Venturing Leadership Society, driving practitioner learning worldwide. Before launching TDK Ventures in 2019, he spent decades building operational expertise, including leading tech partnerships at InvenSense with Google and Qualcomm. This background gives him a rare view of scaling technology from both the corporate board and the engineering lab.