- Corporate venture capital can allow larger companies to participate in agile startup ecosystems
- Corporate VC sometimes used to distance large firms from risk, as in financial tech area
- May be hard to integrate startups into larger enterprise
- Rationale for investment varies: investment portfolio diversity, intellectual property acquisition, talent acquisition, mergers with other companies or capabilities
Examples:
- VC efforts within large companies
- GV (formerly Google Ventures)
- Citi Ventures
- StartupBootcamp