By Héctor Shibata, director of investments & portfolio at global corporate venture capital (CVC) fund AC Ventures (ACV) and adjunct professor for entrepreneurial finance; and Ricardo Latournerie, a VC investor at ACV
“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong” – Charles Kettering
Today there is an excess of capital in the VC markets that include corporations who are actively participating in VC investments. It is easy to identify technology companies that through their funds such as GV (formerly Google Ventures) Coinbase Ventures, Salesforce Ventures, seek not only a financial return but mainly innovation, disruptive technologies and new business models that support their strategy.
In the first half of…
