Corporate Venture Capital Canvas

The Corporate Venture Capital Canvas (CVC Canvas) helps you build a strategy for a Corporate Venture Capital program by identifying the key items for a successful CVC.

Corporate Venture Capital Canvas

Corporate Venture Capital Canvas

The Corporate Venture Capital Canvas (CVC Canvas) helps you build a strategy for a Corporate Venture Capital program by identifying the key items for a successful CVC.

Corporate Venture Capital Canvas

Main Outcomes

Better ROI

Successfully implemented, the CVC Canvas will make your corporate venture strategy more successful and give a better Return-On-Investment for the entire CVC program.

Stronger Innovation Strategy

Corporate Venturing is an integral part of a Minimum Innovation Strategy;  Using the Build-Buy-Partner-Co Invest- Co-Develop framework. A solid foundation in corporate venturing will have a positive spill-over effect into the larger innovation strategy.

World-Class Competitive Edge

Corporate venturing can give companies a major competitive edge. Intel, Google, Microsoft, Uber, Baidu, and Alibaba are among the top corporate venturing firms, driving significant strategic and financial value for their stakeholders.  Many can learn from the innovation strategies and world-class CVC teams at these firms. The CVC Canvas is one step in this direction.

Use Case: Nordic Bank

A Nordic bank was looking to develop a corporate venture strategy. This grew out of deep frustrations with the lack of urgency, execution and speed in the internal innovation work. After visiting leading European CVC teams, the bank CEO decided to launch its own CVC team.
Quickly realizing the structure would have to be placed outside the main organization, management started looking for a way to build a powerful, Nordic CVC strategy. In fact, management eventually decided to host the new entity across the country in a different city, to ensure both distance from the mothership as well as access to a better fin tech ecosystem.
During this process, the bank used the CVC Canvas to better understand where it was headed and what pieces it needed to have in place.

Corporate Venture Capital Canvas

Problem It Solves

✓  How do we build a strategy for CVC

✓  What are the key items for a successful CVC

✓  How can we align our team and management around our CVC

Who Is It For?

✓  Consultants

✓  Corporate Staff

✓  Strategy Teams

✓  Strategy Leadership

✓  Top Management

✓  Venture Capital Teams

✓  Corporate Venture Capital Teams

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