Corporate Venture Capital Matchmaker
The CVC Matchmaker helps you assess if a startup is the right investment for your company, and if you are the right investor for the startup. It helps you figure out whether you are a good financial, strategic and cultural fit together.
Corporate Venture Capital Matchmaker
The CVC Matchmaker helps you assess if a startup is the right investment for your company, and if you are the right investor for the startup. It helps you figure out whether you are a good financial, strategic and cultural fit together.
Main Outcomes
A Good Fit?
Corporate venturing is on the rise. But few CVC teams have extensive experience in the field. The CVC Matchmaker allows corporate teams to work more successfully with startups to align expectations, define clear expectations of each other, and map out a potentially good strategic and financial fit.
Define Shared Success Factors
The CVC helps both parties focus on shared success factors, as well as mapping out and dealing with key risk factors.
Create Corporate & Startup Success
With fewer startups going public, and CVC investments on the rise, we can expect to see a massive rise in partnerships, equity investments, and acquisitions amongst corporates and startups. The CVC helps increase the chance of collaboration success and drive real shareholder value.
Use Case: Energy Company
An energy company was looking to invest in a smart home startup. While initially promising potential, working through the goals each side had revealed both unclear goals (why do we want to do this deal?), but also misalignment internally at the corporate side of why this deal was a good strategic move.
Moving into the Key Success Factors, it quickly became clear that the shared success factors were both hard to identify and simply not in place.
The parties quickly decided to call of the transaction, continuing the relationship as more traditional supplier-buyer instead.
12 months later the startup completed a major investment round with a competitor of the energy company, aligning itself with a major telecom player, looking to enter the smart home market, eventually going head to head with the energy company in the growing smart home market place.
Problem It Solves
✓ Is this startup the right investment for us
✓ Are we the right investor for this startup
✓ Are we a good investment fit
✓ Are we a good financial, strategic, and cultural fit together
✓ How can we assess investment prospects on “other” criteria
Who Is It For?
✓ Consultants
✓ Corporate Staff
✓ Strategy Teams
✓ Strategy Leadership
✓ Top Management
✓ Venture Capital Teams
✓ Corporate Venture Capital Teams
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