Mike Brooks draws on his experience to examine reasons to do corporate venturing.
This article, the first of two*, contains ideas for successful corporate venture investing – particularly where the goal is creating additional value in core business through access to new technology – drawn from my experience in operations in corporate companies, several start-ups providing products and services to corporates and corporate venture capital investing with an oil major.
Why do corporate venturing?
Here are the main reasons:
l To make money – similar to any other institutional venture capital…
