The Art of Corporate Venture

Only one in five venture building programmes offers startup equity for founders, and most cite staffing as a key challenge.

Establishing favourable deal terms and being transparent about plans to sell are some of the recommendations for smooth sales.

Corporate investors often chose to start companies after spotting a gap in the market. But do they necessarily make good startup founders?

Every CVC team requires a mix of core roles: leader, strategy, finance, scout, operator, and legal. 

Davorin Kuchan, founding managing partner of FreeRun, a dedicated CVC secondary fund manager, demystifies the use of this tool.

The 'Silicon Valley of India' is also known for its lush parks and microbreweries, but where do you meet startups and where are the best cafés? Shelly Mittal of Chrysalix VC tells all.

From tracking success stories to helping corporations get comfortable with risk, here are ways that CVCs can explain their relevance.

For an early-stage investor it makes sense to use secondary sales to rotate out of some more mature startup holdings as a matter of course, says portfolio manager Davide Romeo Nanni.

Having less than $50m in capital is challenging for a corporate VC fund. But with the right approach and in the right sector it can work.

The costs of making things in space — and getting them back to earth — is high. But infrastructure to bring down the costs is being built.

The decline of cleantech and hydrogen investments is overstated in H1, according to GCV data, while transport investments go cold.