19. Corporate venturing and funding your R&D: is this for you?
Calling corporate venture managers and start up founders seeking for funding R&D projects!
Your business is each day closer to becoming a reality. The product concept is developed, you have a complete business plan and your branding and website are sparkling! Now all you need is funding to develop your actual product.
Partnering with corporates for funding Research and Development is one of the many options for impact startups. Intellectual property, exclusivity deals and launching timelines are some of the topics / pressing points to be negotiated.
When is a startup ready and attractive enough for corporates to invest on? What are the critical contractual points to be negotiated? How does corporate venturing compare to other options such as public funding and venture capital funds?
Bring your cases and let’s have a discussion facilitated by Jordania Valentim who has a vast experience in R&D i.e. within FMCG.
Impact investing, FMCG, food systems, agriculture, food value chain, agroforestry, Latin America, Africa
About me
Jordania Valentim is a food industry expert with extensive experience of innovation and an international corporate background. She has recently worked as Partnerships Manager for the Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition mobilizing public-private partnerships and providing financial and technical support to SMEs in order to promote sustainable, healthier diets. Her work included engaging with the international development organizations such as the UN; financing institutions such as the World Bank; large donors e.g. BMGF and governmental ministries from Africa and Asia.
Previously Jordania worked with FMCG corporates such as Nestlé, Fonterra, Danone, Givaudan and Heineken in business-to-business, and business-to-consumer in positions in operations, research and development, marketing and sales based in Asia-Pacific, EMEA and Latin America.
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