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.
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.
And, we can help you build the CVC internally.
01
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.
02
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.
03
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.
04
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.
05
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.
06
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
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.
case studies
See how we helped create new markets through future foresight in telecommunications, consumer goods and advanced glass technologies
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
BUILDING THE CAPABILITY
Innovation that compounds requires more than a good strategy. It requires a repeatable, flexible and dynamic operating model.
01
Investment thesis and portfolio design
A clear, defensible statement of the growth bets worth making — the technology horizons and market adjacencies that will define the next platform. Built before the first investment, not after.
02
Governance and decision rights
Who decides what, at which stage, and on what criteria. The structure that allows innovation to move at the speed it requires — without losing organizational coherence.
03
Intake and qualification process
How opportunities enter the funnel, how they are evaluated against the thesis, and which ones earn the investment of time and resource to develop further.
04
Conversion — from pilot to platform
Most corporate innovation fails at the transition from pilot to scale. Vaxa designs the conversion pathway — the conditions, triggers, and organizational design that makes scaling possible.
A Vaxa On Application
Built for the way a corporate venture team actually needs intelligence
Vaxa On, applied to the corporate venture mandate — continuous visibility into deal flow, portfolio performance, and market signals, not a one-time study that's out of date by the next board meeting.
Deal Sourcing
Continuous scanning of the startup landscape for opportunities that match your thesis, surfaced before they're competitive bidding wars.
Portfolio Monitoring
Ongoing visibility into portfolio company performance and risk signals — not a quarterly check-in that's already stale.
Co-Investment & Syndication
Visibility into who else is already in a deal, and the relationships to act on it before the round closes.
Market & Technology Signals
Early detection of the shifts that change where the fund's next bet should go — before they're consensus.
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