Custom, done-for-you innovation programs
What is a venture builder (VB)?
A venture builder is a company that creates, launches, and scales new businesses using its own resources and networks.
Unlike venture capital, a venture builder does not invest directly in startups. Instead, it helps startups raise funds and grow visibility by hiring highly qualified teams and staying involved in their day-to-day management.
How can a VB help you grow?
If you want to innovate to keep growing but don’t have or don’t want to allocate your own funds or resources, a venture builder like FCJ is just what you need.
We will create a portfolio of carefully chosen startups and use the VB’s resources to help them scale fast so you can make up for the lack of innovation within your company.
Develop complementary products or services
Solve your business challenges
Tap into new, profitable markets
Get ahead of your competitors
Our approach
Business model supported by four pillars that connects major stakeholders & speeds up innovation
CVB
A corporate venture builder: newly created holding company that incorporates industry stakeholders, investors, management, and partners.
Startups
A portfolio of hand-picked startups that bring the necessary innovations to the main corporation.
Shared Services Center
Coworking space, IT infrastructure, marketing, legal, and other important services startups can access to scale faster.
Global Connection Hub
An international ecosystem that connects the startups with investors, innovators, and venture builders.
Tested and validated venture-building framework
Create a CVB to run the innovation program
As the first step, we create a company—a corporate venture builder—that will be running your innovation program as an independent entity with you as the main shareholder. FCJ will act as your business partner and invest its resources to set up and support the newly created CVB as a founding shareholder to mitigate your risks.
Raise capital to operate the innovation program
To keep your investment low, we help you raise the necessary capital to operate the CVB, which will invest its resources in the startups through an investment holding in a corporate structure.
Determine company’s objectives
Before we start searching for the right solutions, we identify the problems: your company’s pain points that the newly created CVB will be solving. By prioritizing those pain points, we’ll ensure that you’ll see the positive impact of the innovation program faster.
Pick the right startups
We’ll hire a dedicated team of highly skilled professionals who will pick the early-stage startups with innovative solutions that will help your company solve its pain points. You’ll be able to participate and make decisions at any stage of the selection process through a selection committee.
The startups will remain independent, with CVB owning between 5% and 20%.
Develop the startups
The same professional team will develop the startups using our tried and tested methodology. The startups will have access to the Shared Service Center and its financial, marketing, legal, HR, project management, and other important services, which will allow them to focus on innovation and sales and drastically speed up their development.
Integrate startups into your company’s processes
We’ll help the startups integrate their solutions in your internal and external processes as proof of concept to make sure that their innovations will help reach the objectives of the CVB and solve the challenges of your company effectively.
Help startups scale
We’ll help startups develop so they can achieve recurring revenue and scale in a sustainable way, reaching the necessary milestones and raising funds to boost their growth.
Decide on your final step
As the last step of the innovation program, after a startup reaches a certain valuation stage, the CVB takes an exit, and you can decide whether the solution remains independent or whether your company will have partial or full ownership in it
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Why us?
100% custom innovation model
It doesn’t matter in what niche your company operates or how complex your internal processes are. A custom model we create for you will fit your organization’s structure and needs perfectly.
We share your risks
We are not a consultancy but your business partners who have skin in the game. We invest in the new company that will run your innovation program to share the risks with you.
We raise the funds for you
Worried about the cost or compliance? No problem. As a part of our framework, we create an interdependent investment holding and raise the necessary funds that keeps your investment relatively low.
We save you time & resources
We bring our own team of highly qualified experts on board who ensure that your innovation program is a success: from picking the right startups, helping them get funds and scale to running the innovation program and integrating new technologies into your organization.
Why us?
100% custom innovation model
It doesn’t matter in what niche your company operates or how complex your internal processes are. A custom model we create for you will fit your organization’s structure and needs perfectly.
We share your risks
We are not a consultancy but your business partners who have skin in the game. We invest in the new company that will run your innovation program to share the risks with you.
We raise the funds for you
Worried about the cost or compliance? No problem. As a part of our framework, we create an interdependent investment holding and raise the necessary funds that keeps your investment relatively low.
We save you time & resources
We bring our own team of highly qualified experts on board who ensure that your innovation program is a success: from picking the right startups, helping them get funds and scale to running the innovation program and integrating new technologies into your organization.
Interested? Let's talk!
Fill out the form below to tell us more about your challenges and how we can help. You can also call or email us using the contact information you see below.
Cris Madureira
Expansion Director North America
contact@fcjventurebuilder.com
Companies we helped innovate & grow
We work with companies in many different industries: from agriculture, health, education, and retail to logistics, real estate, and finance sectors.
