New trends are unleashing earlier-stage investing for corporate VC.

Don’t go to corporate VC now. Get money at a much higher valuation from them later.” This is a common mantra many traditional VCs tell founders when attempting to dissuade them from taking corporate VC money during early-stage rounds. Some traditional VCs also bring additional arguments against corporate investment by portraying an associated conflict, unfair legal terms in deals, and inability, or lack of desire, to follow up in future investment rounds.

Certainly, such concerns have occurred in the past with some corporate venturers,…

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