Corporate Venturing’s Finger on the Pulse

Andrew Gaule, Founder of Corven Networks, describes the challenges that corporations face as they attempt to establish and build venture capital arms. In a Privcap interview, Gaule discusses the benefits that effective corporate venturing can bring to parent organizations, including a powerful spotlight on disruptive change. He discusses the difficulties that corporate venturing officers sometimes have convincing the highest echelons of their organizations to value the intelligence gathered in the venture market, and he also discusses trends in Europe and Asia that impact the flow of capital from corporate venture arms.