The Art of Corporate Venture

It is hard to build an agile, innovative startup inside a big corporation. But not impossible. Setting boundaries and defining your terms carefully will help minimise the risk of failure.

Why more corporate venturing units are choosing a more independent legal footing for their funds.

Here’s how to do that smoothly.

Corporate investors have a more complicated role to navigate than financial VCs. But these 5 strategies can help smooth the job.

There is no let-up yet in the investor pullback, but a series of big energy fundraises helped keep total deal value from falling further.

The value of VC deals in China tumbled 44% to $62.1bn by the end of October, but energy-related startups are still raising big rounds.

Several new entrants to the corporate venturing sector could keep the number of active units above their pre-pandemic highs.

The stability and strategic partnering power of corporate investors comes into its own in a downturn. But CVCs must make sure they are ready.

Investors either focus almost exclusively on investments where there was a commercial deal, or avoid any requirement at all.

The shutdown of Argo.AI is a blow to the self-driving dream (and a loss for its carmaker backers). But is transport CVC merely maturing?

Some 31% of corporate investors told us that the main thing they wanted to get from their startup investments was insights.