Shiva Dustdar and Peter Cowley joined Mark Wilson to talk about whether adoption of the hybrid fund model is increasing in the corporate venturing space, particularity in the healthcare sector.

Speaking at the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium, Mark Wilson, principal at commercialisation consultancy Strategic Technology Bioconsulting, told attendees that corporate venturing capitalists are increasingly adopting hybrid fund models.

Wilson moderated a panel discussing hybrid forms of corporate venturing that mix direct and indirect investing, and described the hybrid model as something that‘blends elements of two different structures into the same environment.

The approach has traditionally been used by government bodies to engage with independent venture capital firms, but he noted…