BCG Digital Ventures’ 2020 Wrap-Up

This year has presented its fair share of challenges, but we’re proud of what we’ve achieved. Here’s our 2020 at a glance.

This has been a year like no other. If you’d have told us at the end of 2019 what was in store in 2020, we might never have believed you.

In the face of challenges, we’re proud of what we achieved. Here are some of DV’s highlights from 2020:

• We did what we do best: build ventures. This year, we launched more than 30 ventures across 9 industries, including Fern Health, heycar Spain, and Studio X.
• What’s more, we did this largely remotely. In response to lockdown orders that impacted all of our centers worldwide, we moved our business building online. Here’s an idea of what that looked like.
• We remained connected across our 11 centers globally, from Manhattan Beach to Singapore. This, plus the new paradigm of remote work, took us 205,947 Zoom meetings — a combined duration of 1,493,609 minutes. We strengthened our relationship with our portfolio companies, our corporate partners, our BCG family, and alumni, and we came together to celebrate our diverse community.
• At our core, we’re builders. That’s why we chose to respond to the pandemic in the way that comes most naturally to us: by building technology products that solve problems. In this spirit, we worked on COVIDSafe for Australia and Corona-Warn-App for Germany. We built Digital Boost to help small businesses in London digitize. And we helped companies keep their workers safe with S@W.
• Finally, our achievements were recognized in The Forrester Wave™ report: we were named as Leader in Digital Product Development Services.

Thank you to everyone who has helped us this year — we couldn’t have done it without you. Here’s to a successful and productive 2021!

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