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1321 Martin Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 | P: 650.308.8899 | www.bellmasongroup.com | [email protected] Benchmark and Roadmap™ for Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) A New Service from Bell Mason Group (BMG), Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) and DLA Piper (DLA) The number of new corporate venture funds has doubled since 2012, and many more corporations are evaluating or re- evaluating CVC as an integral element in their innovation toolkits for growth and competitive advantage. This new generation of high visibility CVCs urgently need to accelerate the impact of their investments but may not have experience with venture capital requirements, skills, success factors and antibodies in the corporate environment. Benchmark & Roadmap ™ for CVC combines BMG’s best practices-based program development for integrated, risk- reduced CVC with GCV’s global data analytics and DLA’s knowledge of CVC legal structures. The Bell Mason Framework for CVC Unit Development Benchmark & Roadmap™ Service Highlights – For new or reinvented (1-3 years) CVC programs: best practices status review of current operations and plans – For companies considering establishing CVC: prescriptive go-forward roadmap and milestones – Based on BMG best practices Framework for CVC Unit Development…learn from the experiences of others – Quickly identify and prioritize key strengths and gaps/barriers to be addressed in developing a CVC program strategy and implementation roadmap – Highlight best practice fundamentals and success factors for the charter, structure, governance model, communications, and operational framework for a CVC program aligned with other innovation activities – Recommend CVC staffing/professional skills development requirements and options (with DLA Piper) – Incorporates GCV market data for clarity on current CVC market dynamics, trends and competitive position to educate management and help set expectations for urgency/immediacy of action – 4-5 week project duration concluding with interactive workshop/action planning session Global Corporate Venturing – Global Deal and CVC Program Data & Analytics CVC Program Profiles Aggregate CVC Market Data CVC Investment Portfolios “BMG’s service gave us the best practice processes to manage the growing pains of integrating with corporate requirements and managing risk. The result was that we were up and running in record time, exceeding management objectives and expanding our fund by 2X in year 2.” William Taranto Managing Director Merck Global Health Innovation Fund LLC
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1321 Martin Avenue | Palo Alto, CA 94301 | P: 650.308.8899 | www.bellmasongroup.com | [email protected]
Benchmark and Roadmap™ for Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) A New Service from Bell Mason Group (BMG), Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) and DLA Piper (DLA) The number of new corporate venture funds has doubled since 2012, and many more corporations are evaluating or re-evaluating CVC as an integral element in their innovation toolkits for growth and competitive advantage. This new generation of high visibility CVCs urgently need to accelerate the impact of their investments but may not have experience with venture capital requirements, skills, success factors and antibodies in the corporate environment. Benchmark & Roadmap ™ for CVC combines BMG’s best practices-based program development for integrated, risk-reduced CVC with GCV’s global data analytics and DLA’s knowledge of CVC legal structures.
The Bell Mason Framework for CVC Unit Development
Benchmark & Roadmap™ Service Highlights – For new or reinvented (1-3 years) CVC programs: best practices status review of current operations and plans – For companies considering establishing CVC: prescriptive go-forward roadmap and milestones – Based on BMG best practices Framework for CVC Unit Development…learn from the experiences of others
– Quickly identify and prioritize key strengths and gaps/barriers to be addressed in developing a CVC program strategy and implementation roadmap
– Highlight best practice fundamentals and success factors for the charter, structure, governance model, communications, and operational framework for a CVC program aligned with other innovation activities
– Recommend CVC staffing/professional skills development requirements and options (with DLA Piper) – Incorporates GCV market data for clarity on current CVC market dynamics, trends and competitive position to educate
management and help set expectations for urgency/immediacy of action – 4-5 week project duration concluding with interactive workshop/action planning session
Global Corporate Venturing – Global Deal and CVC Program Data & Analytics
CVC Program Profiles Aggregate CVC Market Data CVC Investment Portfolios
“BMG’s service gave us the best practice processes to manage the growing pains of integrating with corporate requirements and managing risk. The result was that we were up and running in record time, exceeding management objectives and expanding our fund by 2X in year 2.”
William Taranto Managing Director
Merck Global Health Innovation Fund LLC
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For more information, contact [email protected] or [email protected]
About Bell Mason Group For more than 20 years, Bell Mason Group (BMG) has been an acknowledged CV&I thought leader in guiding Global 1000 clients to customized high performance program development and performance, based on codified best practices in operations, structures, governance, investment and portfolio strategy and performance management. BMG is an expert in helping CV&I teams overcome ‘corporate antibodies’, and streamline operations within the parent company with its road-tested techniques and business processes, designed to maximize and accelerate strategic and financial performance, while marginalizing corporate risk and exposure.
About Global Corporate Venturing Global Corporate Venturing (GCV) is the voice of the corporate venturing community and provides a monthly magazine, daily ezine, website and thought-leading networking conferences and training courses for corporate venture capital professionals. GCV also provides the most comprehensive global data and analysis of companies' activities in buying minority stakes in third-party businesses as well as profiles of leading corporate programs.
About DLA Piper (www.dlapiper.com) DLA Piper is a market leader in emerging growth and venture capital, with more than 1500 lawyers in the US and more than 4000 around the world, many of whom specifically serve entrepreneurs, technology companies and venture funds (both institutional and corporate). With more than 20 US offices, and nearly 85 globally, DLA Piper is strategically positioned to effectively represent both (1) venture capital clients investing domestically and abroad and (2) a wide gamut of innovative technology companies at all stages of their lifecycle.
For more information, contact [email protected] (Chair of DLA’s CVC and Innovation Practices)
