Your Best Projects Are Already Approved
They Are Just Not Funded
Every large company has a budget queue for capital: projects that have been scoped, costed, and approved in principle, that would pay for themselves, and that never reach the budget. The reason is rarely the return. The average corporate hurdle rate runs at about 14.7% against an average cost of capital of about 8.15%, and cost-reduction, automation and technology modernization projects face payback thresholds of two to three years on top. Good projects fail those tests every year.
INNOVO finances them externally, insures their performance, and is paid a monthly fee out of the measured benefit. You deploy the project at nil capital cost. It is a procurement decision, not a corporate one.
What is an INNOVO Corporate Venture?
It is a dedicated company, founded and wholly owned by INNOVO, established the moment your first externally financed and insured project is ready to be signed. It exists to serve one Corporate Partner exclusively, and it does three things:
- Finances and insures your capital allocation queue. Projects you have already scoped and approved, funded externally and off your balance sheet, with performance insured and a monthly fee paid from the measured benefit.
- Brings you technologies you have not yet found. The Venture searches globally for proven cost reduction, automation, technology modernization and profitable net zero technologies, then finances and insures those as well.
- Opens a commercial channel into the INNOVO network. Your goods and services reach the Corporate Ventures of other major corporates: new customers, new markets, new industry verticals, new corporate partnerships. Your people own the relationships; the contracts are yours.
You are not asked for equity, for capital, or for a corporate development process. You may acquire a stake of up to 50% in the Venture later, priced against a delivered track record, if you want one.
How it works, step by step
- An INNOVO Executive engages the person who owns the stalled project, the Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief Information Officer, Chief Technology Officer or Chief Executive, and offers to finance and insure it.
- Your Chief Financial Officer introduces your bankers, and because you hold no equity in the Venture, these capital projects move cleanly off your balance sheet.
- The vendor whose product is stuck supports the sale, because an insured, externally financed package is one it can then offer to every other customer holding it up.
- INNOVO’s insurance broker and capital partners take the referral seriously, because it is a live capital project at a major company rather than a prospect.
- The Venture is incorporated within days once the insurance, the finance and the monthly fee are agreed, and the first project proceeds.
What it is worth to you?
- The project(s) are delivered at nil capital cost, paid for from what they save. On our modeling, a partner receives measured benefit worth about 1.5 times the fees it pays.
- A continuing flow of proven technologies, evaluated once and insured once by INNOVO, then deployed across a growing network so each partner benefits from every evaluation that came before.
- New revenue from the commercial channel, which is the part of this that brings you income rather than savings.
- None of your people are diverted. The Venture runs with its own dedicated team, externally financed.
The network compounds. Every new Corporate Venture adds a qualified buyer for every existing seller and a seller for every existing buyer, so your channel becomes more valuable each time a Venture is founded anywhere in the world, without you doing anything.
Why INNOVO can do this
- An evidenced market, not an assertion. The capital allocation queue is documented across a forty-year lineage of surveys of exactly these companies. Your own finance team can verify every figure before taking a single claim of ours on trust.
- An established financing mechanism. Savings-funded, performance-guaranteed procurement has thirty years of history and a documented record. We are not asking you to try something new.
- Insurance at the center. No project enters the Venture’s program unless its return is insurable, so the underwriter’s diligence is an independent check on every technology before any capital is committed.
Who this is for?
Fortune 1000-class companies and public bodies in manufacturing, transport and distribution, across the United States, the European Union, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada. If you supply the public sector, the same financing travels with you into public procurement.
Why this is not a corporate venture builder
Conventional venture builders charge fees and ask you to fund a new business that has still to find its market. An INNOVO Corporate Venture arrives the other way round: the projects already exist in your own queue, the technology is proven, the financing is arranged and the performance is insured. We are not asking for your capital.
Start with one project from your capital allocation queue.