Comment from Patrick Flesner, director, LeadX Capital Partners, and Stephan Bank

Corporate venture capital (CVC) – corporations investing in startups – is supposed to create a win-win for both established corporations and startups.

Startups can tap into the corporate assets thereby uncovering faster and more efficient opportunities to scale.

Established corporations can generate awareness within the organisation about new technologies, market trends and potential industry disruptors and can capture value by being shareholders in successful startups or becoming the disruptors themselves.

In their article “Making Corporate Venture Capital Work”, Michael Wade,…