Corporate Venture Building is a two-front war, fought internally and externally simultaneously.

• External Front: Product-Market Fit
Product-Market Fit is described as the significant milestone for a startup. Every startup. It is the degree to which a product satisfies a strong market demand. It is also a top reason why startups fail.

• Internal Front: Corporate-Venture Fit
Corporate-Venture Fit is the degree to which a venture matches its corporate mother's strategy at a given time.
There are many examples of Corporate Ventures that were liquidated despite proven PMF. Cited reasons are primarily changes in strategy. This makes CVF a top reason why corporate startups fail - next to Product-Market Fit.

Join this session to learn about and discuss the concept of Corporate-Venture Fit:
-What is it?
- How to achieve and keep it?

Tino Klaehne is a seasoned innovation expert with +10 years of experience in connecting the dots between strategy & design to drive corporate innovation at scale. He is in charge of the development & operationalization of Lufthansa Innovation Hub's innovation strategy.
His work fuels the creation of digital ventures in the travel & mobility tech context by fusing traveler insights with entrepreneurial momentum, business strategy, and emerging technologies.
A designer by training, Tino also holds an MBA with a specialization in Innovation & Business Creation from the Technical University Munich. Before joining Lufthansa, Tino led design teams at different renowned design studios and companies across all phases of Design Thinking and Doing. He has gained extensive cross-industry experience ranging from consumer electronics to public transportation across products, software, and services.