Corporate Venturing

Corporate venturing plays a critical role in accelerating innovation strategy and helping an organization fulfill its growth ambitions. As industry boundaries blur and competitive clock speeds increase, companies—incumbents and newcomers alike—are both emulating and partnering with startups to turbocharge their innovation engines. For established companies, the advantages of corporate venturing include faster results, exposure to new ways of working, access to novel ideas, technologies, and business models—and enhanced competitive advantage in the next game.

Corporate venturing is not one-size-fits-all. As with any powerful tool, it’s important to know how and when to use it. As part of crafting a corporate venturing strategy, BCG works closely with clients to help lay the groundwork by considering several important questions:

Armed with the answers, it becomes possible to shape a winning strategy for corporate venturing.

We support clients across the full corporate venturing spectrum—not just defining the mandate, setting the strategy, and identifying the most attractive investment areas, but all the way through to vehicle setup and refinement, ramping up, and running operations (e.g., deal scouting and execution), and scaling activities (e.g., growth capital).

Our deep understanding of the trends driving disruption across and within industries—combined with our proven corporate venturing toolkit and knowledge base honed over hundreds of engagements, as well as our ability to tap into a unique network of startups, investors, and corporates—makes us an ideal partner to help clients define and implement a winning corporate venturing strategy.