#6 - Creating Ventures From Within w/ Dan Northover & Jasdeep Sawhney (JLR)

🎙️ Welcome to the sixth episode of The Corporate Venturing Podcast!

How do you build new ventures inside a global corporate—and still move with startup speed?

In this episode, I sit down with Jasdeep Sawhney (Managing Director) and Dan Northover (Venture Principal) from InMotion Ventures, the venture studio of Jaguar Land Rover, to explore how they’re building successful ventures that orbit the corporate mothership—strategically aligned, but free to move fast.

We discuss:

🚗 What makes InMotion Ventures a hybrid between a studio and a corporate builder

🛰️ Orbiting the mothership: how to stay close enough to benefit, far enough to stay agile

📊 Their five-phase playbook: from ideation to scale-up

🧱 Building ventures while protecting brand equity in a luxury market

📈 Business model innovation—from ride-hailing to car subscriptions

🧠 Lessons from collaborating across legal, brand, and engineering teams

🎯 Knowing when to spin a venture back into the core—or keep it independent

Whether you’re setting up a new studio or refining your corporate venture model, this episode cuts through the theory and shows how it works on the ground—structure, agility, governance, and stakeholder buy-in included.

Resources:

• Open Road Ventures

• Bundl Venture Club

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