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February 22, 2022

Future Proof chart of the week: CVC evaluation

Some 75% of US corporate venture funds are evaluated on a 2-year time horizon, at odds with their goals of long-term strategic investing. Why?


Maija Palmer

3 min read

Over the course of 2021, researchers from Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business conducted an in-depth study of US corporate venture capital units. They interviewed senior team members of seventy-four CVC units, representing 78% of the active CVC units of companies in the S&P 500 index  — a pretty robust sample.

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Chart showing CVC unit evaluation time horizons
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