Lukasz Garbowski, investment director at Btomorrow Ventures, describes how the corporate venture unit helps its parent diversify away from tobacco.

Btomorrow Venture’s investment director Lukasz Garbowski talks about its mission to help British American Tobacco reinvent itself in an industry going out of vogue.

To be truly effective, an innovation team needs freedom to operate, a separate measurement framework and incentives.

How you set up effective performance metrics for teams whose outcomes are a combination of tangible and intangible effects, is often as much about influence and learning, as it is about revenue.

Corporate investors increasingly come from an entrepreneurship background or have deep operational expertise in their sector.

Intel Capital, Echo Health Ventures and Fenwick & West shared advice on how to prep an investment team for a tough funding climate.

NGP Capital’s second fund produced six unicorns and top quartile returns while navigating significant change at Nokia, its corporate partner. Managing partner Paul Asel shares 6 insights others can take from the experience.

ABB Electrification has learned a lot about working effectively with startups in the three years since it started the Startup Challenge programme.

Debbie Brackeen was give a Herculean task when she joined CSAA Insurance Group — to create another $1bn in revenues for the 100-year-old US insurer in 10 years. That was a 25% increase in sales, and Brackeen knew that just investing in external startups was not going to be enough to reach it. CSAA would have […]

Strong internal networks help corporate investment teams get better results. Chad Bown, of BP, and Nicole Lapointe, of Capital One, shared tips on building them.

Corporations are playing a bigger role in supporting new entrants to the venture industry.

Most corporate investors (74%) employ capital directly from the balance sheet of their corporate mothership but there are many variations.

The number of $1bn plus CVC funds has increased, but most still work with less than $200m.

Keeping the investment committee small and lean appears to be the norm and c-suite executives are usually included.