Working With Startups

Why COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Adoption of 5G Technology

AXA Next on Shifts in the Startup World, and Fueling Innovation Virtually

How to Create the Foundation for a Corporate VC Program

Six Ways to Integrate Startups Without Crushing Their Spirits

Connecting Startups in a Portfolio with Business Units

Why COVID-19 Is Accelerating the Adoption of 5G Technology
AXA Next on Shifts in the Startup World, and Fueling Innovation Virtually
How to Create the Foundation for a Corporate VC Program
Six Ways to Integrate Startups Without Crushing Their Spirits
Connecting Startups in a Portfolio with Business Units

The best large companies are developing new skillsets related to working with startups. These range from participating in accelerator programs to holding hackathons to creating new investment funds to simply assigning an executive to be a visible point of contact — an ambassador to the startup ecosystem.

Not all of those approaches will work for every company, and doing all of them at once is a recipe for disaster.

A good starting place in this topic area is our 25-page research report, "Startup Engagement: Best Practices for Large Organizations."

A Magna Carta for Corporate-Startup Collaborations

In this book excerpt, Trond Undheim, entrepreneur and former head of the MIT Startup Exchange, shares four elements of effective corporate-startup interactions, and some of the factors that can lead to failure or frustration.

Inside Intel’s New VC Strategy: Fewer, Bigger Bets

Intel Capital has put over $12 billion into 1,500 startups since it was founded in 1991. Mark Rostick offers explains how it has endured.

Innovation at The Nature Conservancy

Jennifer Chin of The Nature Conservancy discusses the organization’s Sustainability Accelerator, and what corporates can learn from nonprofits…

‘Culture Matching’ with the Right Startups

“Corporate innovation…teams spend little time assessing culture’s role in…[working] with startups,” writes W.L. Gore’s Paul Campbell. Get advice on how to avoid that fate…

Inside AXA Next’s Innovation Avenues

AXA Next unites the French insurance company’s innovation initiatives. Learn more about AXA’s different innovation funds and how the company explores the insurtech.

Five Elements of Successful Startup Engagement from the US Air Force

Steve Lauver, a Captain in the US Air Force, shares five elements of successful startup partnerships. He also discusses AFWERX, a program innovating within the Air Force.