Corporate Innovation Capital: An Alternative Investment Vehicle to Traditional Venture Capital

In this paper, the author enumerates and analyzes a series of structural challenges and problems in the current standard Venture Capital (VC) investment model.  The paper further studies the implications and negative impacts of these issues for most participants in the VC market.  Acknowledging the ongoing importance of “venture-style” investment returns for these market participants, the study identifies a promising emerging alternative for indirect (i.e. Limited Partner) investors. The study concludes that the Corporate Innovation Capital (CIC) model can solve many, or all, of the existing VC-market’s problems for these investors.