Corporate Venture Capital
What It’s All About
Corporate Venture Capital (CVC) empowers companies to invest in and partner with emerging startups, balancing financial return with strategic value creation.
Silicon Foundry helps corporates design and operate high-performing CVC programs without the overhead or risk of building one from scratch. From fund formation to deal sourcing, due diligence to post-investment engagement, we act as an embedded partner across the full venture lifecycle.
Whether you’re launching a new fund, scaling a portfolio, or exploring strategic investments outside of traditional M&A, we bring the expertise, network, and execution power to deliver real results.
Why This Matters Now
CVC is now a cornerstone of corporate innovation, but few teams are set up to navigate its pace and complexity. Corporate venture arms often struggle to translate big-company priorities into startup-native moves. The result? Missed opportunities, diluted credibility, and slow decision-making that can’t keep up with the venture ecosystem. Even the best teams find it hard to access top founders, decode market signals early, and stay close to what top VCs are seeing.
That’s where Silicon Foundry comes in. We operate as the eyes and ears on the ground, deeply embedded in the venture world, plugged into elite investors, and trusted by founders. We deliver deal-ready insights, unmatched access, and proven methods to help invest with speed, precision, and strategic impact.
Our Core Membership fills this gap by providing real-time intelligence, exclusive access, and actionable pathways, tailored to each Member’s priorities and powered by our unparalleled network embedded across global innovation hubs.
What You Get
Our CVC support spans the full venture lifecycle and is designed to flex with each Member’s evolving needs:
Fund Formation Support
Structure legal entities, investment mandates, KPIs, compensation plans, and approval workflows that align financial and strategic goals.
Team Extension
Augment lean or part‑time corporate resources with an experienced venture team that can flex up or down as deal volume dictates.
Curated Deal Flow
Filter inbound opportunities and run proactive outreach across global startup ecosystems, VC networks, and founder communities to surface startups that match the Member’s thesis.
Investment Thesis Development
Craft and continuously refine data-driven theses around priority themes, market shifts, and white-space adjacencies.
Market Awareness
Building visibility, credibility, and reputation for the CVC through network connectivity, proactive outreach, and bespoke events.
Due Diligence & Transaction Support
Deliver external validation, market/tech diligence, and negotiation support through term sheet and close.
Portfolio Value Creation
Drive post‑investment impact via customer introductions, channel access, and talent recruitment.
Performance Benchmarking & Process Optimization
Track fund and portfolio performance against industry benchmarks; implement best practices to shorten cycle times and improve IRR/strategic ROI.
Learning & Development
Upskill corporate teams on venture economics, board governance, and emerging technology trends through tailored training and workshops.
How It Works
We tailor each engagement based on a Member’s CVC maturity, internal resources, and strategic goals. Our proven process includes:
Why Silicon Foundry
Our team includes former VC partners, investment banking heads, and corporate development leaders who have closed over $150B in Venture and M&A transactions. We maintain trusted relationships with thousands of founders, top-tier funds, and technologists globally, giving Members privileged access that typical corporates can’t replicate.
With playbooks for every stage, from zero-to-one setup to scaled portfolio execution, we serve as a hands-on CVC partner, focused on delivering both strategic and financial outcomes.
Who This Is Built For
We support corporate leaders shaping the next wave of growth and innovation, including:
- Chief Strategy / Innovation Officers and their teams
- Heads of Corporate Venture Capital or New Ventures
- CFOs and Corporate Development leaders seeking strategic optionality beyond traditional investment and M&A
- Business‑unit GMs looking to accelerate product roadmaps through external innovation
