Interview

May 19, 2020

The three reasons innovation projects get shelved

Pathfinder helps corporations build ventures. 10% of them get funded, 10% are rejected and 80% get shelved. These are the three main reasons why.


Kimberly Eynon

4 min read

Raphaele Leyendecker is an entrepreneur with two startups under her belt: Agronergy, a renewable biomass supplier she started in 2012, and Horseee, a social network and marketplace for equestrian sports, founded in 2015. Nowadays, however, she builds startups for corporate customers — including big names like Carrefour, Nestle, Thales and Airbus — as chief operating officer of Pathfinder, the corporate innovation arm of venture capital firm The Family.

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