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The Founders' Guide to Corporate Venture Capital

Navigating Strategic Investment

By: Frederick Dopfel

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Paperback | 13 July 2026 | Edition Number 1

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156 Pages

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Filling a critical gap that has left founders unprepared for the nuances of corporate venture capital (CVC) engagement, this book provides a definitive, practitioner-focused field guide for navigating this complex world, avoiding pitfalls caused by misaligned incentives, hidden terms, or corporate politics.

With CVCs now participating in over 20% of all venture deals, founders urgently need a playbook that addresses the unique strategic motivations, management structures, and deal terms of these powerful and increasingly common investors. This book is the first and only one written for the founder on how to negotiate with CVCs, focusing specifically on side letter terms and their long-term and often unforeseen impacts. Written by a practicing CVC investor with deep experience across institutional and corporate VC, it also offers a rare, holistic view of the entire venture ecosystem, enabling understanding of how a CVC's dual strategic and financial goals predict their behavior, incentives, and potential conflicts of interest.

Through detailed checklists and case studies, this book covers every step of the startup-CVC engagement, from pre-meeting research to post-closing strategy. This book is the definitive resource for startup founders and their executive teams who are actively fundraising or preparing to raise from CVCs, institutional VCs working with CVCs, and for students in MBA, law, and undergraduate business programs interested in a career in startups or corporate venture capital.

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