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corporate venturing

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corporate venturing

Investment in a new or existing venture by another company. Usually corporate venturing is undertaken by large firms investing in start-ups or small, rapidly growing companies. Corporate venturing means that growing firms have access to more venture funding and are able to receive advice from the investing company. One disadvantage is that large companies can use corporate venturing as a means of stifling competition, through acquisition.


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Moreover, with CEOs these days debating ways to achieve top-line growth through innovation, corporate venturing shapes up as an important avenue.
The authors, consultants with extensive backgrounds in working with startups and big corporations alike, argue that the principal problem has been in the execution, not the basic framework, of corporate venturing.
Asset Alternatives also produces four other newsletters--Latin American Private Equity Analyst, Venture Capital & Information Technology, Venture Capital & Health Care, and The Corporate Venturing Report--and a series of conferences, research reports, directories (including The Corporate Venturing Directory and Yearbook and Galante's Venture Capital and Private Equity Directory), as well as internet-based products (assetnews.
 
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