Bruno Meireles de Sousa

Operating Partner, Bidra Innovation Ventures

Bruno Meireles de Sousa is an Operating Partner at Bidra Innovation Ventures, OCP Group’s corporate venture capital platform, where he leads fund activities across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He brings more than 25 years of experience across global business development, financial structuring, venture investing and deep-tech ecosystems. His career spans senior roles and advisory work across large corporates and venture platforms, including Cargill, Philips, ENI, Rockstart and Dipalo Ventures. At Cargill, he worked on venture investing and venture building, helping develop new businesses from within a large corporate environment. Bruno’s investment and operating focus includes agriculture, energy, chemicals, supply chains, data and industrial sustainability. He is also active as a board advisor, mentor and angel investor, supporting startups and innovation programmes globally. He combines corporate strategy, commercial execution and venture-building experience to help scale technologies that can transform essential industries.