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. A hallmark of the course is a custom Challenge Project leveraging key course concepts and empowered by unique access to a luminary industry mentor.

$6,000 per participant

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

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:

  • Developing a strategy and plan for a new or expanded CVC investment unit to extend the innovation reach/impact

  • Formalizing CVC team/parent processes for collaboration on investment theme development and execution

  • Creating or scaling a CVBD/portfolio development platform and aligning it with investment (single pipeline)

  • Building an end-to-end process and platform for ‘parent multi-LP’ strategic engagement and management

  • Designing parent-side strategy and infrastructure for impactfully engaging with a CVC unity and portfolio

  • Establishing a venture development (operational support) program for early-stage investments

  • Measuring and communicating strategic impact

Upcoming Conducts

May 6, 7, 9, 2024

Sessions are held live online via Zoom

US/Europe/LatAm Friendly Time

Course includes a kick off session on April 18, 2024, from 8AM - 9:30AM Pacific and a wrap up session on June 20, 2024 from 8AM - 10AM Pacific

October 17, 18, 21, 2024

Sessions are held live online via Zoom

US/Europe/LatAm Friendly Time

Course includes a kick off session on September 26, 2024, from 8AM - 9:30AM Pacific and a wrap up session on December 5, 2024 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.”