Only play with money you are prepared to lose...
The old poker saying is "if you sit down at a table and cannot see the mark to be fleeced then its you" is a useful reminder to corporations invited to invest in portfolio companies backed by the best venture capital (VC) firms.
VCs have long regarded corporate venturing units with understandable suspicion due to the latter’s often-short-term investing histories and flip-flopping over whether to invest for financial or strategic reasons.
That relatively nascent groups from emerging markets outside Silicon…
