The finding of a survey by US-based recruitment consultant J Thelander Consulting in partnership with the Corporate Venture and Innovation Initiative that corporate venturing unit leaders earn just under $500,000 should not alarm, even though it is less than comparable venture peers.
Few issues are more thorny in corporate venturing than compensation. A major problem for the stability of corporate venturing units is that it is generally perceived that those working in corporate venturing are paid less than their peers in independent venture capital.
Thus the headline finding that top-ranking corporate venturing executives earn about a third of what their independent peers do, in a survey carried out by US-based recruitment consultant J Thelander Consulting in partnership with the Corporate Venture and Innovation Initiative – Global Corporate Venturing is a member…
