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The Corporate Venture Building Playbook

The methodology we use to take a corporate venture from zero to launch — open-sourced.

Since 2016 we have launched over 100 businesses and raised more than $500 million for the ventures we have built. This series walks through the process end to end: how we decide where to play, how we validate before committing capital, how we prototype and launch, and how a venture finally becomes an independent company.

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The Corporate Venture Building Playbook — seven episodes, under four minutes each

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Introduction: The Corporate Venture Building Playbook

Introduction: The Corporate Venture Building Playbook

Alex Mahr and Jan Sedlacek introduce the series. Most organisations don't lack ambition, capital or ideas — they lack a structured, accountable way to turn those into operating businesses. This episode explains what Stryber does and what the rest of the playbook covers.

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Why Venture Building: The Stryber Framework

Why Venture Building: The Stryber Framework

A walk through the end-to-end Stryber Venture Building Framework: the three pillars it rests on, and the phases a venture moves through from strategy and ideation to scale-up and roll-out.

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Investment Thesis

Execute (pre-seed)

Investment Thesis

Great ventures don't start with an idea — they start with an investment thesis. A VC-like analysis of an opportunity space that defines where to place your bets before anything gets built.

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Topic Validation

Execute (pre-seed)

Topic Validation

Before committing serious money to a venture idea, you validate it. Topic Validation is a fast, 360° mini due diligence run across every shortlisted idea, in two weeks rather than two months.

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Prototyping & Testing

Execute (pre-seed)

Prototyping & Testing

Don't build the product yet. This stage tests the riskiest assumptions with prototypes and real-market experiments before anyone writes serious code, with the goal of reaching problem-solution fit on actual customer data.

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MVP & Launch

MVP & Launch

From validated idea to live business: building and launching a minimum viable product, winning the first real customers, and recruiting the permanent founding team that takes the venture forward.

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Carve-Out

Scale (Series A+)

Carve-Out

The final step: turning a validated, launched venture into a standalone company. After roughly two to three years of building, the carve-out establishes the venture as its own legal and operational entity, scaling to Series A and beyond.

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