Scott Bowman and Peter Bryant, managing partners, and Michael Lippitz, principal, Clareo review the recent evolution of corporate venturing approaches and share guidance on which are right for your situation.
Readers of Global Corporate Venturing are familiar with the rapid expansion and diversification of corporate venturing approaches. Companies have gone beyond sourcing innovation from suppliers and customers and investing in startups. Today, they are standing up accelerators and incubators, hosting hackathons and experimenting with equity crowdfunding, among other things.
This article reviews the recent evolution of corporate venturing approaches and provides guidance on which ones might be right for your situation.
In the early years of corporate venturing, companies tended…