Masters of Corporate Venture Capital: Collective Wisdom from 50 VCs Best Practices for Corporate Venturing How to Access Startup Innovation & How to Get Funded

At Rubicon Venture Capital we are organizing a series of events in San Francisco, New York and London bringing together panels of top CVCs to discuss the subject and network.

Our first event is planned for September 29th in London. Register here: CVCLondon.eventbrite.com.

We are still finalizing dates and venues for the same event in SF and NYC. Please contact me if you want to host or sponsor a similar event anywhere worldwide. Our typical format is networking, VC panel, quick talk sharing findings of my research and then plenty of time for networking, food and drinks bringing together entrepreneurs, angels, VCs and corporates.

Here's the back story of why I wrote this book. 

A large Chinese technology corporate asked me to advise them on forming their own CVC. I told them that I would interview at least 20 to 30 of the top CVCs I already knew and ask them how they do everything from strategy to operations, investment committees, etc. I promised to compile this research and deliver it to them in a private form and also write a book to be shared with the public. I asked my CVC colleagues to share information that I could share with my client and also to sign off on case studies and stories to be included in this book. I also reached out to the large Rubicon VC database asking for stories and interviews from independent financial VCs, CEOs, lawyers and bankers and compiled the best stories with the best advice. I realized that this book was not just essential reading for existing CVCs and corporates thinking of launching CVCs, but that entrepreneurs and VCs thinking of raising CVC funding would also benefit from reading this book. If you outline the playbook of how a CVC invests, their process, what synergies they can unlock and related challenges, this is like reading the playbook of your opponent before going into the negotiation. A deeper understanding of this topic also helps the startups, angels, VCs and CVCs work together more effectively understanding each other's challenges to maximize chances for achieving the huge possible synergies. This is essential reading for anyone seeking to raise capital from these 50 CVCs and other CVCs. I truly believe that when CVC is done right it can move mountains for the startup. When it's done wrong it can be a disaster.

I hope to see you at one of our events (rubicon.vc/our-events/) this fall!

With regards,  

Andrew C. Romans

Contributors & Interviewees*Gaurav Bhasin, Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, Pagemill Partners, a Division of Duff and Phelps Securities, LLC*Roel Bulthuis, Founder & Head, Merck Serono Ventures*Armando Castro, Jr, Partner, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP*David Cohen, Founder & Managing Partner, TechStars and Disney TechStars Accelerator*Nikolay Dmitriev, Former CVC Managing Director, OJSC "Rostelecom"; Partner VITA VENTURES*Tim Draper, Cofounder, DFJ, Draper Associates and Draper University*Max Dufour, Partner Technology & Strategy, Harmeda*Eric Elfman, Founder & CEO, Onit*Saman Farid, Vice President Investments & Director of Silicon Valley Office, Legend Star 联想之星 (Legend Holdings); Managing Director, Comet Labs*Brad Feld, Author & Managing Director, Foundry Group; author, "Venture Deals" and five other Venture Capital books *J. Skyler Fernandes, Founder & Managing Director, Simon Venture Group (SVG)*Tom Fogarty, Inventor of the Balloon Catheter and 165 Medical Patents;  Founder, Fogarty Institute for Innovation; prolific investor*John Frankel, Cofounder & Partner, ff Venture Capital*Anil Hansjee, Former Head Google's European & Israeli Strategic Investment and Corporate Development Programs; Former CVC, IDG Ventures, MTG Sverige Modern Times Group; Partner & Co-Investor, Mojo Capital Fund of Funds*Michael Harries, Cofounder & Chief Technologist, Citrix Startup Accelerator*Kenny Hawk, CEO, Mojio; CVC-backed Serial Entrepreneur*David Horowitz, Former Partner, Comcast Ventures; Founder & CEO, Touchdown Ventures*Villi Iltchev, Partner, August Capital; Former Director & CoFounder, SalesForce Ventures; SVP Strategy & Corporate Development, Box*William Kilmer, Former Head of Intel Capital EMEA; Operating Partner, Mercato Partners; Founder & CEO, Public Engines*Mitch Kitamura, Cofounder & Managing Director, Draper Nexus*Christina Ku, Investment Director, DOCOMO Innovations (NTT Docomo subsidiary); former investment professional, Vodafone Incubation & Ventures, Intel Capital, TriplePoint Capital and Silicon Valley Bank venture debt group*Jonas Landstrom, USA Managing Director, Volvo Ventures*Pär Lange, Founder & Investment Officer, Swisscom Ventures*Rick Lazansky, Cofounder & Managing Partner, Silicon Catalyst; Board Director, Sand Hill Angels*Jack Leeney, US Head of Investing, Telefónica Ventures*Toby Lewis, Editor, Global Corporate Venturing*Suresh Madhavan, Investment Manager, Verizon Ventures*Curtis Mo, Partner, DLA Piper*Blake Modersitzki, Managing Director, Pelion Ventures; Cofounder &  Managing Director, Novell Ventures*Claudia Fan Munce - Cofounder & former Managing Director, IBM Capital Group; VP, IBM Corporate Development; Venture Advisor, New Enterprise Associates (NEA)*Matthew Myers, Senior Executive, BNP Paribas Banking Group, responsible for international CVC transactions *Tom Nicholson, CEO, Nicholson NY (acquired by IconMedialab AB), Chairman & CEO, LBi International; Founding Member, Angel Round Capital (ARC)*Victor Pascucci III, Former Founder & Head, USAA Ventures and Head, Corporate Development*Jacob Bratting Pedersen, Partner, Northcap AB*Mark Platshon, Senior Advisor, BMW i-Ventures; Managing Director, Icebreaker Ventures*Frédéric Rombaut, former Managing Director & Head of Corporate Development International, Cisco Systems; former Founder & Managing Director, Qualcomm Ventures Europe; former Apax Partners; Cofounder, Bouygues Telecom; Founder-in-Residence, Founders Factory*Peter Rule, Chairman & CEO, OptiScan Biomedical, Inc.*Anand Sanwal, CEO & Cofounder, CB Insights*Jonathan Sherry, Cofounder, CB Insights*Igor Shoifot, Partner, TMT Investments; Chairman, Happy Farm Incubator; Cofounder, Fotki; adjunct professor, UC Berkeley, UC San Francisco and NYU*Igor Sill, Managing Director, Geneva Venture Group; Founder, Geneva Venture Partners; through his Family Office, Limited Partner in Goldman Sachs Investment Partners, Benchmark Capital, Norwest Ventures, Granite Ventures, The Endowment Fund and ICO Funds*Ozan Sonmez, Head, New Ventures Startup Accelerator and Hikmah IP Accelerator, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) Saudi Arabia*Rahul Sood, Founder, Microsoft Ventures and Microsoft's network of Accelerators; CEO, Unirkn*Masatoshi Ueno, Senior Manager, AGC Ventures (Asahi Glass America)*Sita Vasan, CEO, Ernst & Young SVG Solutions; former senior exec, Silicon Valley Bank; 12.5 year veteran Investment Director, Intel Capital*Alex Wang, Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development, VMware*Fred Wilson, Founder & Managing Partner, Union Square Ventures and Flatiron Partners*Bart Würman, CEO, DDF Ventures; former CEO, AM Pharma and Lanthio Pharma*Jack Young, Head, Venture Capital, Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners; former Head, Qualcomm Life Fund; General Partner, dRx Capital AG*Patrick de Zeeuw, Cofounder, Startupbootcamp Global; Cofounder, InnoLeaps.com, the Accelerator for Corporates*Anonymous, Financial VC active in Silicon ValleyAnonymous, Managing Director, large Japanese CVC active in Japan and Silicon Valley

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