Comment from Selina Troesch Munster, principal, Touchdown Ventures

When considering launching a corporate venture capital (CVC) unit, executives at public companies may wonder how analysts and the stock market at large will react to the news of an investment programme.

To help executives at our corporate partners and friends in the CVC community address those concerns, we began studying the stock price of public companies with CVCs. Our 2019 analysis of US-based public corporations on the “GCV 2018 top 100 most active CVC list” showed that…