Helping the world's best enterprise organizations commercialize innovation to ignite change.
We help our clients address their biggest strategic challenges more quickly, with less risk and greater impact than traditional innovation models by partnering with the best enterprise-ready startups today!
A worldwide network of VCs, Seed Investors, Accelerators, University Labs and Scouts grant us unparalleled, advanced access to novel solutions.
Our team of unbiased corporate strategists build custom programs designed to achieve your goals with vetted partners who can deliver results.
Win-Win Results. 100+ innovation programs resulting in over $12M in revenue for startups now collectively valued at over $2B.
Our programs have been featured in:
Visionaries are defined as having extraordinary foresight and imagination. Those who can see what isn't there. They can imagine the unimaginable and they have the grit to make it happen.
From the C-Suite to the up-and-coming disruptors, our podcast guests are blazing new paths, discovering inventive solutions and powering the future. Join us each week as we speak with these Visionaries about driving transformative change across business and society.
In the episode, we talk about why external innovation is important for a $60B+ revenue company and how to justify external innovation to internal stakeholders. We also dive into why growth and disruption insurance go hand in hand, as well as the LG NOVA Commercial Accelerator Program.
“If you take equity, it's much more transactional. So companies would then say, 'Okay, if I give you revenue, I want to make sure we get a POC within Intel, or I can sell to Intel, or you take me into a certain program,' and we don't want that, right? We want that if it's right for everybody, then it's fine. Not taking equity gives a whole different type of relationship between the startups and us, where the trust is much bigger so we can tackle, and we do that, we help them clean up the cap table. We help them find a new co-founder if necessary; or even restructure the whole team. Right. And this is not so easy if you have equity, if you have a certain bias there."
– Markus Bohl, Managing Director of Intel® Ignite Europe
"We already have amazing business groups in TDK that know exactly what they need to do with existing products in existing markets. And we have R&D teams and M&A teams that know how to expand: whether it's new markets, existing technology or new technology in existing markets. But exploration is actually going into the megatrends that are strategic for the corporation: new market, new application, new use cases, new technology. And that's the mission of TDK Ventures."
– Nicolas Sauvage, president of TDK Ventures
Disrupt or be disrupted? At VentureFuel, we believe that there's got to be a better way. Transformative change can best be achieved through collaboration. Check out our point of view on the future, the role of external innovation; and the opportunities for collaboration to drive growth.