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Balancing strategic and financial value

Balancing strategic and financial value [has been] a long-standing tension in the corporate venture capital (CVC) industry. Industry practitioners adopted various models over time, but academic researchers lent their insights to the debate as well.

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Profiles of two CVCs a decade after formation

Across the industry, real-life CVCs developed a variety of approaches to balance the pursuit of strategic and financial value. The examples below provide a sense of the fairly wide spectrum that existed in 2019

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LifeTech promises impact on life insurance

In a whitepaper titled “Emerging LifeTech ecosystem promises profound impacts on life insurance”, New York Life Ventures explores the implications of this new ecosystem on the future of the life insurance industry – and highlights how the team has invested accordingly.

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Editorial: 50 years after the internet, what new trinity will shape the future?

It feels appropriate Web Summit, a conference for about 70,000 technology startups and investors, is being held the week we mark 50 years since delivery of the first message across what was the beginning of the internet, the ARPAnet. That first message between US scientists in California has morphed into the internet enabling billions of… Continue reading Editorial: 50 years after the internet, what new trinity will shape the future?

Accessing innovation: corporate executives in unfamiliar territory?

Because senior management may have a deep understanding of the sector and the specific needs of the corporate sponsor, it seems easy to assume that involving them in the selection process will help the corporate venture capitalist (CVC) pick the right startups to support.

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