Mergers & Acquisitions
Corporate Venture Capital: Designing a CVC for Strategic Return
A CVC without a commercial pathway into business units is an expensive portfolio, not a strategy. How to structure a venture arm that pays back. The report sets out the considerations and practical implications discussed in the article.
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- PDF · 14 pages
- Published
- Published Oct 2026
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What's inside
- 01Corporate venturing is everywhere, but few programmes are built to last
- 02The market is smaller, more selective and more concentrated in AI
- 03Strategic and financial goals pull in different directions, so rank them
- 04Governance and placement decide whether the CVC can act
- 05A commercial pathway turns a portfolio into a strategy