In fact, doing it badly is worse than not having any CVC activity at all.

Global Corporate Venturing analysis indicates that companies with active CVC programmes have higher revenue, EBITDA and cash flow growth.

Classic investor, former founder, expert, activist. connector and outsider — there is a broad range of ways to excel at corporate investing.

From having a business development professional on a startup's board to making sure the corporate's sales force are motivated to sell a portfolio company's product, here six things that startups value in their corporate investors.

Four companies raised over $700m in February as a burgeoning crypto sector continued to help Singapore buck the bear market and pharma companies resparked IPOs in the US.

Corporate investors are disproportionately involved in the biggest funding rounds by energy sector startups.

More corporate investors choose to invest in academic research. But it requires much different skills to investing in later-stage startups.

Some 54% of the dollars invested in generative AI startups last year came from funding rounds involving corporate investors. Stock markets are rewarding big corporate gen AI spenders handsomely.

From appointing an independent advisory board to hiring an external management team, here are several recommendations for building internal ventures successfully.

Exit values are increasing, crypto funding has seen a resurgence and Singapore has seen a 60% year-on-year increase in corporate-backed funding rounds.

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More corporate investors are turning to seed-stage investing to get early exposure to new technologies. But it requires a different skill set to what CVCs are used to.

Solar energy and grid storage saw some of the biggest funding rounds as falling prices put these clean energy options into the mainstream.

UK corporates invest in the domestic innovation ecosystem less than US, French and German peers. The government is trying to change that.