CORPVENTURING

CorpVenturing assists Fortune 5000 firms in creating innovative corporate venturing programs to drive revenue growth, gain competitive advantage, and manage the risk of disruptive competition... In 2009 most of the angel groups across North America came together to form AngelPool.org (the association of angels and accelerators) which is now the world's largest with over 95% of the top 200 angel groups involved. Cummulatively 23,000 startups apply for funding and 800 of them are funded each year from the angel groups that comprise AngelPool. Key global companies soon learned of the mass concentration of deal flow and requested targeted access for investment and acquisition purposes. This was determined as synergistic by the angel groups as an additional source of both capital and distribution for their portfolio companies and the initiative formalized as CorpVenturing in early 2013. CorpVenturing has helped Fortune 500 companies like Georgia Pacific scout for disruptive companies and..

Primary location: Palo Alto United States