Corporate Venture

August 13, 2016 by Alexa Cleek -

An investment from one corporation in another, typically at an early stage for strategic reasons.⁷

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Seed Stage Financing | Venture Capital Financing| Bridge Financing

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Early Stage

The key characteristic is market development. The business is focused on sales and marketing and proving business viability.²
A state of a company that typically has completed its seed stage and has a founding or core senior management team, has proven its concept or completed its beta test, has minimal revenues, and no positive earnings or cash flows.³
This term generally refers to a young enterprise that is three years old or younger. During this phase, a company is still in its novel stages of development. They could be in the process of experimenting with new products or services that they intend to market in the near future and/or may have viable products that are already available to the public.⁴

Corporation

A legal entity structure for businesses enterprises which are typically chartered by a state or the federal government, under which ownership is held by shareholders.⁶

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Non-Dilutive Shares | Supermajority | Tag Along/Drag Along

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