About Us

Who is Global Corporate Venturing?

Where global innovation and capital meet

GCV works with industry leaders, investment experts, and our own data to create content tailored to the specific needs of the venture and innovation community. We help curate an environment where everyone can thrive.

GCV provides the global corporate venturing community and their ecosystem partners with the information, insights and access needed to drive impactful open innovation. Across our three services - News & Analysis, Community & Events, and the GCV Institute - we create a network-rich environment for global innovation and capital to meet and thrive.

Established to unleash the collective power of corporations as strategic investors and innovation partners, the Institute supports the industry with professional development and certification informed by unique Keystone operational benchmarking and enhanced by powerful communities of practice.

A community CVCs from across the globe who recognize the individual and collective benefits of coming together to form a community that advances the industry in impactful ways. Members benefit from privileged access to the full range of GCV services.

GCV Institute’s benchmarking platform designed to offer current, deep data and insights on Corporate Venture operating models and performance. It provides CVC leadership and key parent stakeholders with external peer and cross-sector reference points when critical decisions must be made about program creation, expansion, or redirection.

Our Audience

… and why they attend GCV events

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Corporate Venturing Units

To gather the latest trends, explore deal-flow and find solutions with fellow CVC peers

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Venture Capitalists

To connect with CVCs about LP propositions and portfolio positioning

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Corporate Innovators

To better understand the role of CVC units in wider corporate innovation and identify different investment strategies

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Ecosystem Support

Whether it’s provide legal support, funding litigation, incubation, venture building or acceleration, there’s a huge pool of corporate investors for service providers to meet

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Startups and Entrepreneurs

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To develop knowledge of building successful relationships with corporate investors and showcase your innovations

Universities and Government Bodies

To position and showcase innovation ecosystem programmes and investment opportunities for corporate and VC investors

GCV work both with and for our community to provide world-class content and events. Community is at the heart of everything we do, so we make sure our spaces are optimised to help the success of each member, and across the industry as a whole.

To learn more about what we can do for you and how we can immerse you and your business into our community, please contact Charlie Hayward.

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Build and support the venture and innovation ecosystem

Our Event Goals

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Celebrate success across corporations, ventures and ecosystem service providers

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Create insightful discussion for all to get involved in

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Learn from different perspectives, experiences and expertise

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Forge new, long-lasting connections that augment and grow your business

GCV Editorial Team

Our specialist team creates content dedicated to exploring and improving the corporate venture and innovation community.

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