As corporate investment units get bigger, they need a mix of skillsets and career levels — and a good COO to manage them.

Cogent Venture Partners' Mario Augusto Maia talks about the transition from financial asset management to CVC, and how to deal with the hurdles involved.

Some 38% of CVC units have a team dedicated to helping portfolio companies make business connections. It is increasingly becoming a secret weapon for investors as portfolio valuations come under strain.

A small but growing number of CVCs are quietly reaching fund sizes of more than $1bn. When they get there, life changes in some ways.

Failure to understand product-market fit is at the heart of why most projects fail. CVCs could take some lessons from these post-mortems.

Lukasz Garbowski, investment director at Btomorrow Ventures, describes how the corporate venture unit helps its parent diversify away from tobacco.

Btomorrow Venture’s investment director Lukasz Garbowski talks about its mission to help British American Tobacco reinvent itself in an industry going out of vogue.

To be truly effective, an innovation team needs freedom to operate, a separate measurement framework and incentives.

How you set up effective performance metrics for teams whose outcomes are a combination of tangible and intangible effects, is often as much about influence and learning, as it is about revenue.

Corporate investors increasingly come from an entrepreneurship background or have deep operational expertise in their sector.