During the Global Corporate Venturing Symposium 2017, George Ugras, managing director at IBM Ventures, and Stanford professor Ilya Strebulaev discussed the business models of corporate venturing units and what drives their success

George Ugras, managing director at computing company IBM’s investment subsidiary IBM Ventures, and Ilya Strebulaev, professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business, talked through the differences of traditional venture capital and corporate venturing.

Ugras and Strebulaev were joined on stage by Will Gornall, assistant professor at University of British Columbia’s Sauder School of Business; Kenneth Gatz, founder and chief executive of deals database ProSeeder, who moderated the discussion; and James Mawson, editor-in-chief of Global Corporate Venturing.

Strebulaev picked up on…