Corporate venture

Founder Corporate Venturing Service

Helping corporates innovate

The benefits of corporate venture capital (CVC) are clear.

They improve strategic business options, drive top line business growth, help you partner with growth businesses to gain new customers, and allow you to import innovation from successfully innovating startups.

At Stone & Chalk, we help you find the right founder partners so you can harness tech disruption as a business opportunity rather than a threat. We help you understand the impact of technology on your business in a way that sets you up for future success.

Be ready to expand your world of a large corporation, and realise and leverage the value of startup and scaleup brands and distribution. It will take your business to another level.

We help corporations: 

  • By curating, assessing and introducing you to our startup and scaleup founders, and managing the daily requests you get from founders  
  • Understand your strategy and ideal partner profile 
  • Access regular reports on key technologies and applications that are most relevant to your industry and company
  • Engage with startups from partnership all the way to equity stakes and even acquisitions
  • Define and then commission the businesses you want to see built, through venture studios or innovation competitions.

About Stone & Chalk

Stone & Chalk has been in the innovation business since its inception in 2014. From the early days of fintech, to now everything from Cyber Security, PropTech, Quantum, Web3 to AI and more.

We foster a community of founders, experts, corporates, partners, and more to help entrepreneurs and businesses grow and succeed, ensuring they have everything they need to adapt and thrive in an age of technological disruption.

With more than 600 startup and scaleup residents, we have deep knowledge and access to entrepreneurs who are building disruptions that could be the new life (or stagnation) of your corporate business.

Helping founders grow

Getting access to corporations or governments that fall into your target customer segment is important, but it can be so difficult given there is no clear pathway.

Securing the right relationships at the right time with corporations and government can sometimes be the make or break of your success, which is why Stone & Chalk is doing something about it.

At Stone & Chalk, we help founders partner with corporations to accelerate your growth, and we do the work for you. We help founders by introducing you to the right corporations at the right time, and at the same time we help corporations find the right startups and scaleups that can help drive their business innovation and growth.

As the largest innovation community in Australia, Stone & Chalk supports corporates and founders through our new Founder Corporate Venturing service. It is designed to give you, a founder, access to the right corporate and government entities at the right level and right time, with a strategically aligned proposition.

It is a service where founders and corporations get matched and strategically introduced to new potential partnerships that have the best chance of succeeding. If you like each other, Stone & Chalk will work with both sides to prepare you for the world of corporate procurement, making partnerships as smooth and fast as possible. And if there’s an opportunity for an equity investment or even an acquisition, we’ll bring in the right professionals to help you maximise the opportunity.

We help founders: 

  • By introducing you to corporations and government entities at the right level and time  
  • Understand your strategy and ideal partner profile 
  • Engage with corporations from partnership all the way to investment 
  • Define and then commission the partnerships you want to be part of.