Commercialising innovation always needs funding and venture capital is not the only answer. The new corporate venturing world now stands beside venture capital, and it offers some unique advantages.
However, Corporate Venturing needs navigating and steering. Join us for a webinar on the 17th June when we will hear from Maija Palmer of Global Corporate Venturing on How to use Corporate Venturing and how it is now beginning to augment venture capital but with the promise of better and faster routes to market.
Who should attend this webinar?
- Start-ups who may want to reach the market faster or are unsure about raising further investments.
- Those who want to work in an ambitious start-up.
- One of the many stalled companies facing a funding gap
- Private Equity funded companies with no obvious route to growth.
- Existing businesses who have not yet considered corporate venturing .
- Companies needing the skills needed to find relevant start-ups.
- Supply chain companies able to partner start-ups and offer fast track to market.
- Step up companies facing the post EIS VC funding gap.
- Companies owning a market looking for companies that own new technology.
Historically, Corporate Venturing was carried out by divisions in large corporations, generally with average results and based on internal priorities rather than external opportunities.
Over the last decade, Corporate Venturing has evolved as industrial structures changed, the numbers of start-ups grew and the need to access markets made the corporate venturing process more strategically attractive and more quickly rewarding.
Corporate venturing has now fully entered the territory of venture capital where it can offer more than just investment, in effect adding value.
Global Corporate Venturing is an enabler of this process, making the corporate venturing process accessible to companies and start-ups. Now 20% of VC investment is Corporate Venturing and investment gaps are being filled in this way.
The IET Innovation Management Technical Network’s corporate venturing webinar on 17th will show how CVC (Corporate Venture Capital) works and how to access it. The gaps in innovation funding are well known, the commercialisation of innovation in the UK is problematic and this webinar will show how corporate venturing can be used to fill the gaps and speed up access to markets.
As UK venture capital increasingly makes larger investments, but makes fewer of them, many promising start ups do not realise their potential because there are gaps in venture capital. This webinar will show how these gaps can be filled by new dynamic corporate venturing which can now originate from companies of any size, not just large corporates. In an industrial landscape of supply chain companies hand in hand with market facing companies, corporate venturing is a good fit.
What do you think?
Before the webinar, it would be great to hear your perspective.
Where do you see the biggest sticking point in commercialising innovation right now?
Is it:
- getting funding at the right stage?
- turning ideas into something commercially viable?
- or simply finding the right partners to move things forward?
Do you think corporate venturing could genuinely help?
Let’s keep the conversation going
If this has got you thinking, why not take it a step further?
Join us on 17 June, hear directly from someone working right at the centre of this space, and bring your questions with you.
Dr Mark Scibor-Rylski
Executive Committee IET Innovation Management Technical Network
