Corporate VC
topic on 2 shows · 7 statements across 5 episodes
7 statements about Corporate VC, every show
Lutsch: Corporate VCs leading funding rounds can sometimes harm startups
“Because as a larger corporate, you always have to be cautious whether you are helping or hurting the startup with your brand name and leading a deal, and it can sometimes rather hurt, and then we are cautious and tell the startup, we think it's a better idea i…”
Wallace: Left to their own devices, corporate VCs make terrible decisions
“While they have all this potential left to their own devices, corporates will make terrible decisions.”
Kashyap: Corporate VC is a better training ground than traditional VC
“And I think that's why I think corporate VC is a great training ground. You cannot necessarily do the things I'm talking about in a normal financial VC environment, but in the corporate VC environment, you can do these things”
Kashyap: Corporate VCs lack fixed check sizes and ownership targets
“In the corporate VC environment, we don't have constraints of, we have to write a check of X million dollars. We have to get 20% ownership. We only, only can invest in a sector that the LPs gave us money for.”
Kashyap: Corporate VCs foster greater diversity than traditional VC firms
“Historically, it's been very, very hard to see how there's sort of just a fundamental lack of diversity in the way it is, and I sort of trace it back to a little bit of the inflexibility with the VC model, and the financial VC model, and why I think corporate …”
Kiip Raised Most of Its Later-Stage Capital From Strategic Corporate VCs
“Pretty much most of the new capital we've raised from new funds in our latter rounds have been pretty much only strategic, ah, corporate VCs.”
Triest: Corporate VCs have smaller networks because they do not fundraise
“There are certain firms who invest off balance sheets of big corporations, which is great, and they do really wonderful things, but their networks are always generally smaller and I think a lot of that has to do with the lack of fundraising, because they're no…”