Landing the Value of Corporate Venturing

What is Landing the Value of Corporate Venturing?

Landing the Value of Corporate Venturing is a pod-based deep dive course focused on developing ‘end-to-end investing’ strategies and building professional CVBD/portfolio development (‘Platform’) programs for parent/ecosystem engagement. The hallmark of the course is a custom Challenge Project leveraging key course concepts and empowered by unique access to a luminary industry mentor.

  • Establishes a foundational overview of corporate venturing including history and growth, CVC operating models, and program maturity phases

  • Explores the evolution of best practices in end-to-end investing and the emergence of the professional CVBD/portfolio development (Platform) function to accelerate portfolio value

  • Illustrates high-value startup partnering approaches, interweaving key concepts in expert stories from CV team, parent partner and startup perspectives

  • Considers the potential roles of CVC team and parent in the end-to-end investing pipeline

  • Reviews use of stakeholder networks to enhance CV program credibility, and accelerate investment and partnership development opportunities

  • Discusses barriers to/solutions for parent-startup engagement (from PoC to commercial rollout)

  • Presents a framework and considerations for defining and tracking CV program performance

  • Offers opportunities to engage with startups and CVC experts, and to network with peers from other corporations to share experiences, challenges, and best practices

  • Provides unique access to luminary industry mentor as advisor on end-to-end challenge project

  • Offers assessment-based certification and ongoing access to private Institute alumni LinkedIn group as well as quarterly online expert panels discussing hot topics for CVC investors

Immerse Sessions (Theory, Case Studies, Panels, Peer Breakouts)

Session 1: Corporate Venturing Fundamentals

    • What is corporate venturing

    • Role of CVC in corporate innovation strategy

    • CV program maturity cycle and operating models

    • Why work with startups: value to corporates and startups

    • When to engage: venture development stages and funding rounds

    • Startup mindset and characteristics

    • Startup partnerships: KSFs and watchouts

    • Wiring the corporation for change

    • KSFs for CV program resiliency

Session 2: Powering End-to-End Investing

    • The ‘End-to-End’ (corporate) venture investing lifecycle

    • Aligning investment and innovation partnering activities

    • The ‘landing pipeline’ overview

    • Aligning parent innovation goals and startup engagement approaches

    • Building startup engagement teams and ‘platforms’/playbooks

    • Defining collaboration expectations and vehicles for each startup development stage

    • Stakeholder influence mapping and management

    • Strategic communications (internal and external)

Session 3: Delivering Portfolio Value

    • Problem sets and investment themes

    • Collaborative strategy development approaches

    • Defining CVC program and parent roles in startup engagements

    • Streamlining the landing pipeline

    • Overcoming corporate barriers to startup engagement

    • Setting performance priorities and metrics (strategic, financial, and operational)

What’s your Challenge?

  • A practical opportunity to apply course learnings to address an important end-to-end investing topic for your CV program

  • A cross-function pod-based project supported by a luminary mentor drawn from leaders and functional experts from some of the world’s most successful and resilient corporate venturing programs

Sample challenges:

  • Incorporate an ‘impact’ strategy into a new fund/fund expansion plan/proposal

  • Design a ‘platform’ team aligned with investing to drive the CVC innovation charter

  • Map and formalize parent champion networks and incentive plans

  • Develop a playbook for managing the portfolio-parent engagement pipeline

  • Create parent-side strategy and infrastructure for impactfully engaging with CVC team and portfolio

  • Measure and communicate strategic impact across innovation horizons

May 1, 5, 6, 2025

Sessions are held live online via Zoom

US/Europe/LatAm Friendly Time

Course includes a kick off session on April 24 from 8AM - 9:30AM Pacific and a wrap up session on June 12 from 8AM - 10AM Pacific

Who Should Attend?

CVBD is a middleman function which involves the alignment of multiple stakeholders. For the best results, companies typically send 2-4 participants, and where appropriate, at least one parent representative, who will work together in cross-functional (CVC/CVBD) ‘pods’ during breakout sessions and their Challenge.

  • CV teams committed to building or expanding CVBD programs for parent engagement

  • Parent BU and functional managers who partner closely with CVBD teams to build effective startup partnerships that deliver on their business priorities

  • Shared services professionals who provide specialist support to CV investment and innovation partnering activities and need to understand why venturing is different

Pricing

  • $6,000 per participant

Discounts available for groups of 3+ and for Leadership Society members. Contact courses@gcvinstitute.com for more information.

Moha Shah, Head of Portfolio Development, Avanta Ventures

“Global Corporate Venturing Institute’s Landing the Value of Corporate Venturing program expanded my toolkit by providing me with timely and valuable perspectives from experienced venture capital leaders from around the globe – Silicon Valley, Europe, Asia, and Latin America. My program’s cohort comprised top corporate venture capital professionals from both investing and portfolio development teams. Moreover, the curriculum was an engaging and impactful learning experience through asynchronous online modules and live sessions with my cohort. I highly recommend taking GCVI’s Landing the Value of Corporate Venturing program to any venture capital firm that aims to unlock strategic value, growth, and innovation for your parent company and startups within your portfolio.”