Corporates - Corporate Venturing

Corporate Venturing is well established as a growth strategy in the USA. It is still in its infancy in the UK and Aorta is uniquely positioned to deliver the full spectrum of resources that ventures need to succeed. We are probably the only consulting firm that offers both the strategic and operational skills to help you negotiate complex corporate venturing deals and take a venture from concept through build and scale implementation. The input of a commercially skilled and impartial intermediary like Aorta reduces the risks of failure and increases the quality of potential partnerships

Corporate venturing partnerships give large companies access to the specialist expertise, technology, niche markets and enthusiasm that is often found in innovative SMEs.

The practice of corporate venturing is a means of achieving growth for both large and small companies through a partnership where strengths are traded and risks and rewards are shared.

The larger company usually invests whatever resource the SME requires, such as management expertise, access to established distribution channels, equity, or research and development facilities.

The smaller company retains its independence, the larger company gains a window on a new technology, product or niche area of expertise.

Both benefit from generating a potential new revenue stream for their businesses and major corporations may gain an opportunity to become more entrepreneurial.

A further motivating factor is the government’s recent change to tax law which seeks to encourage Corporate Venturing.