Despite superior ideas, assets, talent, brand, channels, competencies, and customers, the Global 1000 is missing out on the start-up innovation and valuation boom. To combat this, an internal incubator and accelerator allows corporations to institutionalize and scale growth efforts. In this session Mach49 Founder and CEO, Linda Yates, will lead you through a session covering the critical components required to design a successful venture factory.

Designed for senior leadership, Linda Yates, a Silicon Valley veteran and global thought leader in Corporate Venture Building, will lead you through a session covering the critical components required to design a successful venture factory.

Mach49 is the first incubator for global enterprises. Founded in 2014 by a team of successful Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Fortune 500-level executives, Mach49 has developed a detailed methodology which uses lean startup and customer development methods to enable companies to create, develop and launch successful new ventures from within their own organizations.

To date, Mach49 has helped their clients create and launch dozens of new businesses across a broad cross section of industries, including:

• Media and information services • Energy delivery
• Consumer packaged goods
• Industrial manufacturing
• Aerospace and defense • Banking
• Consulting
• Transportation
• and many others

Mach49 clients include Shell, Prudential, Schneider Electric, Stanley Black & Decker, Nestlé Purina, DMGT, Pernod Ricard, Cargill, Airbus, JetBlue, RWE, Standard Bank and Metalsa.

To find out more about Mach49 please click here. To find out more about the EDB Corporate Venture Launchpad please click here.