In this session, we explored corporate venture building as a systematic process for building new businesses with business models that are substantially different from those of the parent organization.

Corporate Venture Building is a hybrid approach that employs entrepreneurial methods to maximize the leverage available via the incumbent’s existing assets – industry expertise, plant, data, reputation and so on – and create a portfolio of aligned but independent businesses.

FoundersLane considers this approach to be uniquely suited to tackle complex, science-based, and regulated markets, like healthcare, where Start-Ups frequently struggle to jump entry barriers.