We partner with the world’s most innovative organisations to shape disruptive technologies that will change the world.
Together, we can build the future.
DeepTech Venture Creation
Through our DeepTech Venture Building as a Service, the scale, reach,
and execution capabilities of your organisation can come together with
the people, processes, and networks of CFT,
Curate and
shape defensible,
foundational technologies
that empower your next
generation of products
and services, delivering
step changes in your
industry
Create a deep defensive moat through the ownership of the intellectual assets that enable future industry trends
Reinforce your innovative
brand and showcase the
possibilities of the future,
creating business winning
propositions that drive
top-line growth.
Provide opportunities for
colleagues to immerse
themselves in early-stage
innovation.
Gain access to the emerging
research and technologies
affecting your industry
to remain as a leader
amongst disruptive and
impactful trends.
Corporate DeepTech Challenges
The scale, reach, and execution capabilities of large organisations have the potential to catapult DeepTech innovations to change the world as we know it, supporting ambitious five to ten-year strategies. The challenge is efficiently and effectively loading the catapult.
From previous roles, the CFT team have direct experience of many challenges that face large organisations seeking to foster disruptive innovation. And we have heard of many more
from discussions with our corporate partners
Our Corporate Venture Building Process:
- Relevant, accessible, usable DeepTech.
- De-risking the extremely risky.
- Investment governance.
"It’s no secret: innovation is difficult for well-established companies."
McKinsey
The Journey
Supporting five-to-ten-year strategy
with disruptive DeepTech innovations
With unprecedented access built through years
of professional network building, we can go direct
to source, working with technical teams from the
top universities in the UK and beyond to identify
foundational technologies with enormous market
potential at the pre-incorporation stage, and spin-them
out from their research environments. The same model
applies to corporate IP libraries, where we can work
with your organisation to filter appropriate technologies,
unlocking unrealised value. The above process can be
transparent to your innovation teams, allowing them
visibility of the next wave of disruptive technologies
impacting your industry
By working as an integral part of the co-founding
team at incorporation, we utilise our venture building
playbook, our experience, and our professional
networks to overcome the challenges facing earlystage DeepTech innovation. This includes building and
developing a founding team; establishing advisory
boards; developing product, financial, and commercial
strategies; securing funding; establishing an operating
rhythm; and many further tasks to deliver standalone,
self-sustaining ventures that are gaining technology
maturity and building towards commercial impact.
An unfair advantage of the Venture Building as a Service
model is the ability for your organisation to validate
a commercial model for ventures and provide the
platform through which they can massively accelerate
their commercial scale. To achieve this, we will work
with your organisation to identify subject matter
experts and key internal stakeholders for each venture.
This allows for bi-directional information flow to drive
synergistic collaboration, while giving the added benefit
of opportunities for internal talent to support the next
generation of innovation. Together, we will shape the
innovation towards strategically aligned commercial
applications.
"Venture Builders can typically deliver
30% higher success rates and 50%
faster progress from zero to series A."
The DeepTech Investment Paradox, BC
Our success is built upon:
Our internal team of seasoned founders and operators, in conjunction with a highly skilled talent pool, are the driving force behind the successful creation and development of our cutting-edge DeepTech ventures.
Our refined operating model, rigorously tested and optimised against our portfolio of DeepTech ventures, allows us to select and de-risk early-stage innovation to repeatedly deliver commercially successful businesses.
Through years of relationship building with top-tier UK universities and other innovation stakeholders, we have access to world-class
enablers of our venture building activities, including collaborators for deal flow, investment, and DeepTech expertise.
"CFT is the essential catalyst for academics
to transfer their invention to innovation.
And we are glad to have their support in
commercialising our technology at Mimicrete."
Dr Liz Ziging Li
Mimicrete
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
Let’s Get Started:
Together, we can shape disruptive technologies that will change the world.
Innovate. Scale. Invest. Win. Let’s take a bold step into the future together.
