In our series of articles Corporate Venturing on the Test Bench, Martin Haemmig and Boris Battistini review and analyse the latest trends.
The mandate of corporate investors combines financial with strategic objectives and targets. Therefore, unlike independent venture capital firms (VCs), corporate investors can be expected to pursue broader strategic objectives from their new venture investments.
Research on corporate venturing has documented the range of strategic goals and uncovered how corporate venturing activities can generate strategic value for the corporate parent. While it is now widely established that corporate investors can provide highly-valuable resources and have a significant impact on the outcome of new ventures, limited evidence…
