Masters of Corporate Venture Capital: Collective Wisdom from 50 VCs Best Practices for Corporate Venturing How to Access Startup Innovation & How to G - Paperback

by William Kilmer (Foreword by), Ty Nowicki (Illustrator), Andrew Romans (Author)

Andrew Romans captured wisdom from interviews with 100+ Corporate Venture Capitalists (CVCs), independent VCs, CEOs of startups, bankers and lawyers to write the definitive book on the topic of CVC. Masters of Corporate Venture Capital is packed with invaluable advice about how to best raise capital from CVCs, unlock synergies of partnering startups with large corporations for rapid international growth and avoid potential disasters and other dangers related to CVC.More than 20% of all Venture Capital financings include at least one CVC and thus startups need to understand this previously misunderstood area of funding. Corporations need to establish their own CVC arms to access external innovation and learn how to bring this inside via VC investing, partnerships and M&A. We work in a very complex ecosystem and this book captures stories that bring the complexity to life with simple lessons.This book is for: -Entrepreneurs-VCs-Angel investors-Family offices-CVCs-Corporates thinking about launching a CVC-Anyone advising startups.

Author Biography

Andrew Romans is the cofounder and general partner of Rubicon Venture Capital, a very active Silicon Valley and New York City venture capital fund that invests in privately held technology companies and enables its investors to co-invest along side the fund on a deal-by-deal basis via innovative sidecar funds right up to IPO or M&A exit. Rubicon Venture Capital raises capital from corporates, individual high net worth angel investors, family offices and institutional LPs creating a powerful network ready to help and go to bat for its startup portfolio. Romans is also the author of The Entrepreneurial Bible to Venture Capital (McGraw Hill) - http: //amzn.com/0071830359. https: //www.linkedin.com/in/romans