Become a Corporate Entrepreneur
Found and lead a company alongside a multi-billion-dollar corporation
INNOVO Corporate Ventures are companies formed alongside multi-billion-dollar corporations. They build rapid, independently audited partnerships between those corporations and their major customers and suppliers, and they are founded and led by Corporate Entrepreneurs: experienced senior executives who share in the value they create.
Founder equity is the larger prize
With a $10 - $25B Corporate Partner, a founding Chief Executive’s holding is modeled to be worth about $48M by Year 3 and $250M by Year 12 before any sale, many times a typical private equity-backed Chief Executive’s, and part of it can be sold twice a year from Year 2.
Your relationships open the door
The core requirement is strong relationships with Chief Operating, Commercial and/or Financial Officers at multi-billion-dollar companies. They open a Venture’s first meetings and its first revenue.
Cash from month two
First cash arrives in month two, from the first Scoping fees, after about four days invested and before the Corporate Partner commits.
A different kind of career
- Corporate employees earn a salary, a bonus and limited equity, and avoid risk.
- Entrepreneurs earn cash and equity from a share of the value they create, and risk their own time.
- INNOVO Corporate Entrepreneurs can earn substantial cash and equity from a share of the very high audited value they create. Like entrepreneurs, they risk their own time. About one in ten Corporate Entrepreneurs also choose to invest cash, in INNOVO or, once it is incorporated, in their own Venture.
The roles
- Chief Executive and Founder of a Corporate Venture. Create and run a company alongside a multi-billion-dollar Corporate Partner. Read more
- Corporate Venture board roles. Corporate Entrepreneur Chief Commercial, Financial, Operating, Procurement, Technology, Information and Sustainability Officers.
- Project and management roles, delivering the value-added projects each partnership agrees.
- INNOVO central roles in talent, commercial and technology.
How you are rewarded
- A contingent day rate that accrues from your first day and is paid from the first fees.
- Performance Share Units in your Corporate Venture, priced against a quarterly valuation by an independent investment bank.
- Liquidity events, expected twice a year from a Venture’s second year, when new investors buy shares from holders; each depends on buyers, and none is guaranteed.
- Salary, benchmarked to companies of equivalent revenue, once the Venture can pay one.
Built this way
From April 2022 to July 2026, INNOVO Net Zero Topco created four divisions with $141,034 of cash, 0.3% of the total, and over $41.5M of contingent, deferred work and services, 99.7%, alongside Performance Share Units with a generally accepted valuation of about $413M. Its principle of retrospective fairness gives every contributor a fair share of the value they help create. Many of our Corporate Entrepreneurs come to us through interim executive agencies and executive outplacement firms, which are welcome to introduce candidates.
Start part-time
oles start at about eight hours a week. Nobody has to resign to find out whether this works, and a founding Chief Executive knows by month four whether the Corporate Partner has committed.
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