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Corporate Venture Capital: Obligatory or Oxymoron?

David Teten

And they should be; the feeding frenzy in the innovation economy is in some cases because startups are eating the lunch of more established companies. In either case, corporations have to set up their investment vehicles so that the venture capital community sees them as serious players. Some corporate funds now lead rounds.