Microsoft’s IP Ventures program, throughout which Microsoft spun out hopeful however fresh technologies into new companies, is a new method of corporate venture capital. The application supplies “IP for equity” and has proven quite successful in achieving its primary goals-enhanced morale among researchers who like understanding their technology is used, enhanced transactions with the venture capital community particularly in Silicon Valley, and good PR.
A few of the eight companies introduced so far are doing nicely. Can the application be scaled beyond its current size, and how can it structure its investments to reduce the dilution that Microsoft consistently faces, given that it does not invest beyond the technology that seeds the firm initially?
PUBLICATION DATE: March 29, 2010 PRODUCT #: 810096-HCB-ENG
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