High Alpha Innovation

High Alpha Innovation is a venture builder that partners with corporations, universities, and world-class founders to launch advantaged startups. High Alpha Innovation helps large organizations navigate venture creation as a capability for driving growth, resilience, and optionality as part of their overall innovation strategy.

Since 2020, High Alpha Innovation has launched more than 20 companies in partnership with leading organizations including Capital One, Koch Industries, Purdue University, University of North Carolina, and Elanco Animal Health. Together we are building the largest network of advantaged startups that the world has ever seen, and helping corporations and universities access innovation that changes the world.


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High Alpha Innovation is a venture builder that partners with corporations, universities, and world-class founders to launch advantaged startups. High Alpha Innovation helps large organizations navigate venture creation as a capability for driving growth, resilience, and optionality to drive growth strategy.

Since 2020, High Alpha Innovation has launched more than 20 startups in partnership with leading organizations like Capital One, Koch Industries, Purdue University, University of North Carolina, and Elanco Animal Health. Together we are building the largest network of advantaged startups that the world has ever seen, while helping our partners make transformational innovation tangible.

The High Alpha Innovation venture building playbook is focused on converting assumptions into validated business models through rapid experimentation. Within a few short months, our Build team can work with a corporate or university partner to turn a broad theme into hundreds of business ideas that result in 1-2 launched startups. Our Go-to-Market team then equips the startups with advantage from day one in the form of capital, first customers, coaching, credibility, and community.