SMEs - Corporate Venturing

Small and Medium businesses can leverage Corporate Venturing to locate and access the resources that they require for growth.

Aorta guides you through the complex Corporate Venturing process, adding value to every step, from helping to determine if Corporate Venturing supports your strategic goals, to helping during the negotiations and the implementation of the operations and infrastructure that make your venture a reality. The input of a commercially skilled and impartial intermediary like Aorta reduces the risks of failure and increases the quality of potential partnerships offered.

A corporate venture is an alliance formed between two independent companies, whereby a small to medium size company seeks investment resources from a larger, more established company and through the venture the two companies share the commercial risks and rewards for mutual benefit.

A smaller company going into partnership with a larger company can achieve a faster and higher growth rate than a company that decides to go ahead alone.  It can benefit from skills and knowledge that it would not have access to, established distribution channels or complementary technologies. On the flip side, larger companies frequently find a strategic alliance a more effective means of nurturing business growth outside of organic development and the more risky and expensive route of acquisition.

So a potential ‘win win’ situation - 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.

Aorta is uniquely positioned to deliver the full spectrum of resources that ventures need to succeed, offering both the strategic and operational skills to take a venture from concept through build and scale implementation.