The Challenge
Small and mid-size organizations rarely have the capacity to cover the whole market.
Most of these programs are run by one or two people who also hold a full-time role. They are covering a wide market with limited hours, and the best rounds move fast.
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With the right intelligence behind it, a program can move from reacting to what shows up to going after what fits the strategy.
The Real Bottleneck
It is rarely a shortage of startups. It is a shortage of people and time to find the right ones early enough to act.
WHAT YOU GET
One partner from first idea to signed deal.
We act as your venture team. Whether you are thinking about a program, building one or fixing one, we stay with you through every step.
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And, we can help you build the CVC internally.
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Set up or review your program
We help you decide where to invest, how decisions are made, how the program supports the core business and how success is measured. If you already have a program, we review it and tell you what to change.
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Find and qualify the deals
Startups that match your thesis, found through continuous scanning of the market with Vaxa On. You do not need a full-time sourcing team, and you see them before a competitive process starts.
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Get into the right rounds
Who is leading a deal, who else is in it, and which investors are worth partnering with. We introduce you early, so you are invited in before the round fills.
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Negotiate and close
We support you through due diligence, terms and closing, working alongside your lawyers. You do not have to learn the process on your first deal.
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Put the portfolio to work
We connect each investment to a pilot, partnership or customer inside your business, and take it further into licensing, a joint venture or an acquisition when it makes sense. We also help portfolio companies get to market. The program then shows a return beyond the financial one.
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Keep watching the market
An outside view of the shifts that change where your next investment should go, before they become common knowledge. It keeps your thesis current.
case studies
See how we helped create new markets through future foresight in telecommunications, consumer goods and advanced glass technologies
Technology · Enterprise Software
Fortune 500 enterprise software company
A new application portfolio — and no channel strategy to bring it to market.
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European telecommunication company
They were asking the wrong question. It took three weeks to convince them.
CONSUMER GOODS · INNOVATION
F100 consumer packaged goods company
An innovation process that wasn't producing commercial outcomes — and dormant IP no one had thought to monetize.
Where You Are Today
The work depends on where your program is today.
Exploring or starting
Start with a clear thesis
If you are still deciding whether to build a program, or are not sure how to begin, we start there. We help you decide where to invest and what a good deal looks like. Then we set up the program and the intelligence to find those deals.
Running a lean program
Widen what your program can see
We add continuous deal sourcing, investor access and market signals on top of what your team already does, and support you through to closing, so a small group covers more ground.
Reviewing a program
Reset it on better evidence
We review the thesis, the portfolio and the results so far. Then we adjust where the program invests and how it is measured.
Leading a large program
Add an outside view
Large corporate programs already have networks and staff. We add what the internal brief cannot supply: signals from outside the company, and coverage of the technology areas and regions your team does not reach.
Also Built For
Not only SMB. Any organization that backs startups without a full team to find them.
Economic development agencies and funds
Regional and national bodies with a mandate to grow local companies, usually with a small staff. We help find the startups worth backing and keeping in the region.
Family-owned and privately held companies
Operating businesses that want to build or back new ventures but have no one dedicated to finding them. We give them the view a full venture function would have.
Innovation hubs, science parks and industry clusters
Organizations that serve a network of companies and need an early view of startups and technology on behalf of their members.
The Ecosystem Behind It
Pre-market access to investors and startups across industries.
The ventures worth backing do not wait for corporate programs to find them. Vaxa's ecosystem puts them in reach early.
INVESTOR TYPES
350,000
VC, Corporate Venture Capital, PE, Soverign Funds, Family Offices
STARTUP COMPANIES
900,000
All stages: Pre-seed, Seed, All Series to pre-IPO
Technology domains
50+ Domains
AI/ML · Biotechnology · Genomics & Gene Editing · Advanced Materials · Clean Energy · Quantum Computing · Robotics & Automation · Digital Health · Semiconductors · Space Technology · Agritech · Fintech · Medtech · Cybersecurity · Climate Tech, and more
INDUSTRIES
20+
Enterprise Software · Life Sciences · Consumer Goods · Telecommunications · Financial Services · Energy · Automotive · Healthcare · Industrial · Retail · Media & Entertainment · Logistics · Real Estate · Education · Defence, and more