Venture Capital Program for Fortune 500 Venture Studio

The Challenge

Fortune 500 client was dissatisfied with the performance of existing venture accelerator program and had a need to improve the quality and quantity of early-stage investment opportunities. Agreed goal was to build and run from scratch a corporate venture investment program.

The Solution

  • Developed bespoke investment thesis and strategy

  • Built infrastructure and weekly sprint process for end-to-end deal flow management, including weekly deal flow meetings with the CEO

  • Sourced and screened thousands of investment opportunities

  • Closely worked with founders to conduct investment due diligence, including market sizing, financial modeling, customer and investor interviews, cap table and waterfall analysis, term sheets and investment documents

  • Led investment committee meetings, presenting investment opportunities directly to the CEO

  • Facilitated introductions to ecosystem partners (incubators, accelerators, VC funds)

The Results

>3,000

Investment opportunities sourced and screened in ~6 months

>0.2%

Deal selectivity for investment committee (vs. ~1% industry average)

Example Deliverables

Investment Strategy

Investment Playbook

Weekly Deal Flow Meetings

Investment Committee Meetings

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