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Helping the world's best enterprise organizations commercialize innovation to ignite change.

Comcast NBCUniversal LIFT Labs announced the six startups selected to participate in their Spring 2025 Enterprise Accelerator! 

Collectively backed by over $600M in funding and trusted by Fortune 30 companies, these innovators are leveraging artificial intelligence to transform the future of work—across finance, compliance, content, and customer insights.
Charlotte Newman, Global Head of Underrepresented Founder & Startup BD, Amazon

Visionary of the Year: Charlotte Newman

Charlotte is a former entrepreneur who led the AWS startup strategy to engage and accelerate underrepresented founders and investors. Through her work, she has helped founders access the resources needed to drive meaningful change in their markets.
Visionary of the Year

We are thrilled to announce the finalists for Visionary of the Year!

 
Nominated and voted on by their peers, the VentureFuel Visionary of the Year recognizes the individuals and organizations blazing new paths to power the future. Vote today!

Download our presentation to learn how Co-Development can position your enterprise as an unstoppable innovation leader.

Co-development is a new framework that reflects the future of innovation – co-creating solutions with external partners to deliver transformative results, faster and better than ever before.
Innov8rs Learning Lab

Join Fred Schonenberg and Pritam Bhattarai on FEI 2025!

Join them live at All Things Innovation's FEI 2025 on Tuesday, May 20, 2025, 2:15–2:45 PM ET, as they presents: Co-Development: Turbocharge Enterprise R&D, Accelerate Innovation & Outpace Competition

Next Generation Product Development: Commercializing What's Next Now

 
Innovation is vital for success in today's fast-changing business world. Large corporations and startups each have unique strengths and weaknesses, creating opportunities for strategic partnerships to leverage these advantages through new product co-development. 
Next Generation Product Development: Commercializing What's Next Now

VentureFuel Visionaries

 

Visionaries possess remarkable foresight and creativity, transforming ideas into reality. Our podcast features guests from executives to innovators, discussing their roles in shaping the future and driving change in business and society.

The AI Marketing Canvas — Jim Lecinski
AI MARKETING CANVAS

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management's Jim Lecinski

In the episode, Jim shares insights from his career, discusses the evolving role of AI in marketing, and introduces a powerful 2x2 framework for corporate leaders to begin thinking strategically about AI adoption in their organizations. Tune in for expert guidance on winning in today’s digital and AI-driven marketing landscape.

Unlocking Microsoft's Innovation Secrets — JoAnn Garbin & Dean Carignan
UNLOCKING MICROSOFT'S INNOVATION SECRETS

JoAnn Garbin & Dean Carignan

In this episode, we discuss the risks of fast-following, how not to “get Googled,” the value of biomimicry and infinite innovation loops, the evolution from know-it-alls to learn-it-alls, how to transform a weaponized org chart to open-sourced, extreme collaborator. We talk about how entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs must be storytellers, boundary crossers (“habitual line-steppers”) and salespeople that always build coalitions. We also talk about creating a culture of trust where you can and must “Say It Ugly” to pretty it up later, together.

The 3 Jobs of Corporate Innovators – Innov8rs Chief Hans Balmaekers
THE 3 JOBS OF CORPORATE INNOVATORS

Innov8rs' Chief Hans Balmaekers

In this episode, we talked about the Innov8rs, a global community dedicated to empowering corporate innovators. Hans shared that he has spent over a decade collaborating and learning about how to innovate within the world’s top organizations and shares some of his top tips with us, such as how the best corporate innovators have a day job (innovation, the work), a night job (gathering support and buy-in) and a weekend job (transforming ways of working).

SOLVING CORPORATE CHALLENGES VIA STARTUP COLLABORATIONS

HELPING OUR CLIENTS IGNITE CHANGE

AARP Foundation
California Milk Advisory Board Real California Milk
DICK'S Sporting Goods
Coca Cola
VF Corp
AB InBev
Comcast NBCUniversal
Beam Suntory
Winnebago Industries
1800 Flowers
Biogen
The Hershey Company
Blue Diamond Growers

Future-proof for tomorrow. Show results today.

We help our clients address their biggest strategic challenges more quickly, with less risk and greater impact than traditional innovation models by partnering with the best enterprise-ready startups today!

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Global Innovation Network

A worldwide network of VCs, Seed Investors, Accelerators, University Labs and Scouts grant us unparalleled, advanced access to novel solutions.

Our team of unbiased corporate strategists build custom programs designed to achieve your goals with vetted partners who can deliver results.

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Win-Win Results. 100+ innovation programs resulting in over $12M in revenue for startups now collectively valued at over $2B.

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Client Programs

We’ve been privileged to grow with a game changing community of global corporate innovators throughout the years.

Here are a few programs that have been forged through our collaborations.

VentureFuel POV

Disrupt or be disrupted? At VentureFuel, we believe that there's got to be a better way.  Transformative change can best be achieved through collaboration. Check out our point of view on the future, the role of external innovation; and the opportunities for collaboration to drive growth.

VentureFuel Events

Our events unite leading investors, founders, and corporate innovators to discuss the transformation of business and society through product, service, and technological innovation. Click on a tile below to check out a past events.

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