Corporate venturing
The key to speed innovation
Did you know that companies that invested in innovation during the last financial crisis, emerged stronger and outperformed their peers?
But innovating isn’t easy: lack of R&D budget, lack of long-term strategic innovation vision or dedicated resources are common pitfalls,...
Collaborating with and investing in young and agile startups and scale-ups can provide quick access to new technologies, accelerate time to market for new services and products, increase knowledge of upcoming global trends and shifting consumer behaviour, and solve inefficiencies.
Sounds easy, right? But as a large organisation collaborating with startups and scale-ups isn’t always as straightforward as it may seem. You need to be ready or be able to re-focus.
Especially in uncertain times, corporates are (or at least should be) constantly looking to reinvent and reorganise themselves for the better.
Discover below some of our offerings supporting your corporate venturing journey, or reach out to discuss how we can offer more tailored support you from strategy through execution.
When you’re open to external collaboration by working together with startups, you can find the following benefits:
Exploration of new markets and technologies
Less expensive and more flexible than traditional R&D
Gain new knowledge and competencies
Development of new partnerships
Fostering internal entrepreneurship
Broader view on upcoming global trends
Startup Fitness Assessment
Before you dive in head first, take the time to take a few steps back. How ready is your company to collaborate with a startup? Or are you mainly interested in re-evaluating the current collaboration?
We can help you assess your readiness or current collaboration and indicate which areas your organisation could improve how you collaborate, focusing on strategy, communication and organisation.
Scale+
With our Scale+ programme, we bring together selected, cutting edge technology startups and large organisations to foster innovation, enable co-creation and solve important problems. Using our established network of experts, leading start-ups, and advisory specialists, we make innovation simple, cost effective and repeatable.
PwC's corporate venturing podcast
How can cruise ships (large corporates) and speedboats (agile startups) can successfully join forces? Discover it in PwC's corporate venturing podcast!
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